Fusee Steps is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 2000. Inclined tramway, steps.
Fusee Steps
- WRENN ID
- outer-facade-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 2000
- Type
- Inclined tramway, steps
- Address
- Fusee Steps, Nothe Fort, Weymouth
- OS grid reference
- SY 685 787
- Coordinates
- 50.6076, -2.44643
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fusee Steps is an inclined tramway and steps built around 1860. It features three flights of steps with low flanking walls made of rendered brick. On these walls, there are wrought-iron plate rails that create an inclined tramway designed for trolleys with double-flange wheels. This structure was constructed to facilitate the transportation of ammunition, spares, and stores from the quay to Nothe Fort.
Local climate
Fusee Steps 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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