8, South Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 May 1952. Residential. 2 related planning applications.
8, South Street
- WRENN ID
- final-brass-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 May 1952
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- 8, South Street, Wareham Town, BH20 4LT
- OS grid reference
- SY 923 873
- Coordinates
- 50.68562, -2.10994
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 8 South Street is an 18th-century building that has been rendered and features a pitched tile roof with a red brick chimney stack. The structure is two storeys tall with attics and has a moulded eaves cornice and a parapet. The shopfront, which dates from the 19th century, includes panelled pilasters and moulded consoles. On the first floor, there are three sash windows, and the attic contains two dormers with hipped tile roofs, tile-hung cheeks, and casements that have glazing bars. This building is part of a group that includes Nos. 2 to 10 even, the Unitarian Chapel, Nos. 12 to 32 even, and the Holy Trinity Gallery.
Local climate
8, South Street receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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 2002
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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