Messrs Dibbens' Offices is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1952. Office.
Messrs Dibbens' Offices
- WRENN ID
- fallow-render-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1952
- Type
- Office
- Address
- Messrs Dibbens' Offices, 3, West Borough, Wimborne Minster
- OS grid reference
- SU 009 001
- Coordinates
- 50.80051, -1.98852
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Messrs Dibbens' Offices is an 18th-century building located on the west side of West Borough. It was extended at the rear in the 19th century. The exterior features colourwashed brick walls and a tiled roof with a slate eaves course, along with brick stacks. The rear extension is also made of brick and has a slate roof.
The main entrance includes a doorway with a six-panel door and a flat moulded hood supported by console brackets. To the north of the entrance, there is an inserted canted bay window with double-hung sashes and a timber dentil cornice. To the south of the door, there is a similar canted bay and one double-hung sash window with a central glazing bar. There is a blocked door opening at the south end of the facade.
On the first floor, there are four double-hung sash windows with central glazing bars, and plaster keystones above the arches. An archway south of the main building leads to a through passage, and above this archway is a three-light double-hung sash window with glazing bars. The interior has been much altered, but the staircase appears to be early 19th century, featuring a simple handrail and square balusters.
Local climate
Messrs Dibbens' Offices receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% 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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