The Castle (Museum and Art Gallery) is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1950. Museum and art gallery. 1 related planning application.
The Castle (Museum and Art Gallery)
- WRENN ID
- north-pilaster-clover
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1950
- Type
- Museum and art gallery
- Address
- The Castle (Museum and Art Gallery), South Street, Bridport, DT6 3NR
- OS grid reference
- SY 466 928
- Coordinates
- 50.73255, -2.75793
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Castle, which serves as a museum and art gallery, is an early 16th-century building constructed from hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings and features a tiled roof. It has two storeys and a moulded string course. The building includes a two-storey porch block with a four-centred arch on the ground floor that leads to a ledged door. The lower part of the porch is canted, while the upper part is square and supported by moulded squinches, similar to those found at Winterborne Clenston Manor. The windows are stone mullioned, with two, three, and five lights, each having slightly arched heads and relieving arches on the ground floor. The building underwent significant restoration following a fire in 1876.
Local climate
The Castle (Museum and Art Gallery) receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 1 application
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