Kingdom Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1975. Hall.
Kingdom Hall
- WRENN ID
- quiet-tallow-bramble
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1975
- Type
- Hall
- Address
- Kingdom Hall, Salisbury Street, Dorchester
- OS grid reference
- SY 695 907
- Coordinates
- 50.71555, -2.43291
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Kingdom Hall, formerly known as the Old Baptist Chapel, is a building dated 1830, located on Salisbury Street. It is a two-storey structure with a stucco front, featuring rusticated quoin pilasters and a pedimented gable. The front of the building has a slight curve. On the first floor, there are three round-headed windows, all of which have moulded architraves. The doorway is adorned with a dentil entablature and a blocking course supported on console brackets, also featuring a moulded architrave. Above the door, there is a cross carved in relief. The Kingdom Hall, along with the Old House at Home, forms a group with the consecutive properties numbered 1 to 9 on High East Street.
Local climate
Kingdom Hall 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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