Memorial Bus Shelter is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 2018. Bus shelter.
Memorial Bus Shelter
- WRENN ID
- inner-zinc-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 June 2018
- Type
- Bus shelter
- Address
- Memorial Bus Shelter, On South Side of A353, Osmington, Weymouth, DT3 6EU
- OS grid reference
- SY 725 828
- Coordinates
- 50.64473, -2.38929
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The memorial bus shelter, built shortly after the Second World War, serves as a war memorial. It is made of cut and squared Purbeck stone rubble, arranged in courses, and features a thatched roof.
The shelter has a hexagonal shape and stands on a concrete base. Its walls are constructed from local rubble stone, and the roof is hipped. There is a doorway at the front and four openings in the side walls. To the right of the doorway, within a stone surround, is a small inset stone tablet inscribed in black lettering: "IN MEMORY OF / DAVID PARRY-JONES / 1ST BT THE RIFLE BRIGADE / KILLED IN ACTION / IN FRANCE / 3RD AUGUST 1944." The tablet also includes the insignia of the Rifle Brigade. The rear wall of the shelter has no openings, and inside, there is a timber bench.
Local climate
Memorial Bus Shelter 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2019
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