The Lord Nelson Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. Public house. 2 related planning applications.
The Lord Nelson Public House
- WRENN ID
- fallen-mullion-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Lord Nelson Public House, 52, East Street, Bridport, DT6 3LL
- OS grid reference
- SY 468 928
- Coordinates
- 50.73306, -2.75495
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lord Nelson Public House, located at 52 East Street, is probably from the late 18th century. Originally named The King of Prussia, it may have been built during either the Seven Years or the Napoleonic Wars. In 1914, it briefly changed its name to The King of the Belgians. The building features colour washed brick and a pitched slate roof with coped gables, with No 52 displaying festooned urns above the eaves. It has two storeys and attics, with an eaves cornice made of diagonally placed bricks. There are four ranges of sash windows with glazing bars and two attic dormers with casements. No 54 has a modern shopfront and planked double doors with a semi-circular fanlight. No 52 includes a dentilled 19th-century shop window and a six-panel door with a semi-circular fanlight. The inner door is half glazed, featuring engraved glass depicting an equestrian portrait of a 19th-century Prussian King, possibly Frederick William II or III.
Local climate
The Lord Nelson Public House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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