Purbeck Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1952. Hotel. 6 related planning applications.
Purbeck Hotel
- WRENN ID
- sunken-brass-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1952
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Purbeck Hotel, 19, High Street, Swanage, BH19 2LP
- OS grid reference
- SZ 032 786
- Coordinates
- 50.60767, -1.95565
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Purbeck Hotel is an early 19th-century building on the south side of the High Street. It is constructed of Purbeck stone walls, originally rendered, with a Purbeck stone roof. The building is three storeys high with attics. A central doorway is flanked by modern or rebuilt bay windows that extend through the ground and first floors. The second floor has three double-hung sash windows with glazing bars, and the first floor has one such window between the bay windows. A modern "Tudor" style door has been added to the centre.
Local climate
Purbeck Hotel receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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