Gething and Bowditch is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 June 1953. A C17 Commercial premises. 5 related planning applications.
Gething and Bowditch
- WRENN ID
- third-solder-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 June 1953
- Type
- Commercial premises
- Address
- Gething and Bowditch, 8, the Square, Beaminster, DT8 3AW
- OS grid reference
- ST 480 013
- Coordinates
- 50.80924, -2.73876
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gething and Bowditch is a building that serves as premises for veterinary surgeons and was originally three cottages. It dates from the 17th century and later. The structure features lias rubble walls and a tile roof with stone gable-coping at the north end. There are brick stacks on either side of the centre at the ridge. The building is two storeys high and has four windows facing Fleet Street.
On the ground floor, there are two- and three-light wooden casements with concrete lintels, which were added in the 20th century. The first floor includes two stone mullions from the 17th century: one is a three-light window with a cavetto profile and a label, while the other is a two-light window with an ovolo profile; the centre-mullion of this window has been lost and replaced with wood, also featuring a label above.
The doors include a wooden door on the left with four recessed panels and a glass light above, which has a concrete lintel. The centre door is wooden with six flush panels, and the right-hand door has been blocked.
Local climate
Gething and Bowditch receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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