6A High East Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. House. 3 related planning applications.
6A High East Street
- WRENN ID
- turning-remnant-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- 6A High East Street, Dorchester, DT1 1HS
- OS grid reference
- SY 694 907
- Coordinates
- 50.71562, -2.43357
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a mid-18th century building on High East Street. It is a six-window brick fronted building of two storeys and an attic. The building has a stone plinth and a tile roof with slate verges. The doorway features a moulded wooden architrave, fluted Ionic pilasters, a pulvinated frieze, a dentil cornice and a pediment. The windows have flat brick arches and stone keys. The building has a wooden cornice with dentils. Internally, there is a contemporary staircase handrail ramped to columnar newels. A garage front has been inserted on the left-hand side of the ground floor. The building is part of a group, which also includes Nos 1 to 9 (consec), No 7A, the Kingdom Hall, and The Old House at Home on Salisbury Street.
Local climate
6A High East Street receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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