The Foundry is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1975. Foundry. 1 related planning application.
The Foundry
- WRENN ID
- peeling-groin-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1975
- Type
- Foundry
- Address
- The Foundry, 5, Fordington High Street, Dorchester, DT1 1LA
- OS grid reference
- SY 695 907
- Coordinates
- 50.71553, -2.432
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Foundry is an early 19th-century building of brown brick, originally a foundry. It has a hipped roof clad in corrugated iron. The building is three storeys high, with five ranges of fixed windows featuring glazing bars. Carriage entrances are situated at either end of the ground floor. A loft door is located at the left-hand end of the first floor, with a winch hoist positioned above it. A two-storey extension adjoins the east side, featuring a range of sash windows with glazing bars. The east elevation of this extension contains three casement windows with arched heads and glazing bars, and one flush-framed sash window with glazing bars. A bell and weathervane are mounted on the roof ridge.
Local climate
The Foundry 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 — 4 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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