63, High West Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. Shopfront. 1 related planning application.

63, High West Street

WRENN ID
long-barrel-quill
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 May 1950
Type
Shopfront
Address
63, High West Street, Dorchester, DT1 1UY
OS grid reference
SY 691 907
Coordinates
50.71545, -2.43818
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 63 High West Street is a Grade II listed building, dating from the early 19th century. It features a lower three-storey red brick front with a hipped tile roof. The ground floor has a projecting shopfront with bowed ends, a fascia, and a dentil cornice, although the glazing bars have been removed. On the first and second floors, there are three-light sash windows with wide painted surrounds and painted aprons. The first-floor window includes pilaster strips between the lights and a moulded entablature, while a moulded wood eaves cornice adds detail to the roofline. The entrance door has two moulded panels and ornamental frosted glass.

The rear of the building appears to date from the 17th century, constructed with Ridgeway or Portland rubble on the ground floor and timber framing with pink brick nogging on the first floor. This section is two storeys high and has a pitched tile roof with a 19th-century brick stack. There are three ranges of modern casements with glazing bars. The original coped stone gable end features kneelers and a finial at the north end.

No. 63 is part of a group that includes Nos. 48 to 65A, the Shire Hall, Holy Trinity Church, the Museum, St. Peter's Church, and a monument to William Barnes located in the churchyard immediately south of the West Tower.

Local climate

63, High West 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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