Damers Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1975. Hospital, chapel. 3 related planning applications.
Damers Hospital
- WRENN ID
- fading-rubblework-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1975
- Type
- Hospital, chapel
- Address
- Damers Hospital, Damers Road, Dorchester
- OS grid reference
- SY 686 903
- Coordinates
- 50.71155, -2.44555
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Damers Hospital, built in 1836 and later, was originally a Poor Law Institution. The building is included on the heritage register primarily for its east front and chapel. Designed by George Wilkinson, the main building is constructed of Portland or Ridgeway stone with hammer dressing, and features red brick dressings. It has a hipped slate roof, and is two storeys high with nine ranges of sash windows, those on the ground floor having glazing bars. The central three bays project forward, highlighted by a plain band at first floor level, a moulded eaves cornice, and a pediment. The central doorway is topped with an overscaled modillion cornice. The chapel, dating from circa 1870, is built of brown brick with moulded diaper work around the upper part of the apse exterior, and incorporates a moulded yellow brick cornice. It has a pitched tile roof, an open fleche with a spirelet at the west end, and a polygonal apse with paired lancet windows separated by ashlar buttresses.
Local climate
Damers Hospital 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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