56, West Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 May 1952. A C18 House.
56, West Street
- WRENN ID
- scarred-brass-vermeil
- 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
- House
- Address
- 56, West Street, Wareham Town
- OS grid reference
- SY 920 872
- Coordinates
- 50.68516, -2.11335
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 56 on West Street is an 18th-century building constructed of chequer brick with a pitched tile roof and a chequer brick stack. It stands two storeys high and features a brick modillion eaves cornice. The building has two ranges of windows, with casements on the first floor and Yorkshire casements with glazing bars on the ground floor. It also displays a badge of the Lord of the Manor. This property is part of a group that includes Nos 46 to 56 (even).
Local climate
56, West 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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