10, South Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. A Georgian House. 10 related planning applications.
10, South Street
- WRENN ID
- fading-porch-bone
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1950
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- 10, South Street, Dorchester, DT1 1BT
- OS grid reference
- SY 692 905
- Coordinates
- 50.71393, -2.43652
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
10 South Street is a late 18th-century building, notable for being the house of the Mayor of Casterbridge in Thomas Hardy's novel. It is constructed of burnt grey brick with red brick dressings, featuring a plinth with chamfered stone capping. The building stands three stories high and has a three-window front that is set back from the main frontage line.
A particularly fine late 18th-century doorway is present, characterized by a round-headed opening with a fluted archivolt. The transom above the door is adorned with guilloche enrichment, and there is a fanlight above. The doorway is supported by moulded console brackets that feature beading and foliage enrichment, with paterae located on the entablature blocks above the brackets. The cornice and pediment are decorated with dentils, while the tympanum showcases swag and paterae carving. The eaves cornice is moulded and includes fluting and additional paterae.
The ground floor windows and the central first-floor window are round-headed, complete with stone keys and imposts. The building retains its original rainwater heads and downpipes.
Local climate
10, South 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 10 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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