Premises Occupied by Dorset County Library is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1973. A Victorian Library.
Premises Occupied by Dorset County Library
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1973
- Type
- Library
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Premises Occupied by Dorset County Library, Bell Street, Shaftesbury
- OS grid reference
- ST 864 231
- Coordinates
- 51.00734, -2.19483
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The premises occupied by Dorset County Library, located at 1615 Bell Street, date back to 1615 and showcase a good Victorian design in a Georgian style. The building features two storeys and an attic, with three windows across its facade. It has a slate gabled roof and narrow flanking stacks made of ashlar with capping. The front is constructed of rough ashlar, and there are giant pilasters at both ends and flanking each window bay, which are adorned with a dentil course and a band above at the eaves level. There is also a band above the ground floor. The windows are set in reveals without glazing bars and have moulded stone architraves with keystones and shaped aprons. The round-headed doorway includes a door set in reveals, an architrave with a keystone, and a round-headed stone hood that rests on corbels supported by shaped stone brackets, topped with a small ball finial.
Local climate
Premises Occupied by Dorset County Library receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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