Bonded Warehouse and Former Bottling Stores of Messrs Eldridge Popes Brewery is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1975. Bonded warehouse. 6 related planning applications.

Bonded Warehouse and Former Bottling Stores of Messrs Eldridge Popes Brewery

WRENN ID
solemn-cloister-gold
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 May 1975
Type
Bonded warehouse
Address
Bonded Warehouse and Former Bottling Stores of Messrs Eldridge Popes Brewery, Weymouth Avenue, Dorchester, DT1 1QT
OS grid reference
SY 691 901
Coordinates
50.71042, -2.43857
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Bonded Warehouse and former Bottling Stores of Messrs Eldridge Pope's Brewery, built around 1880, is located on Weymouth Avenue. This two-storey building features a hipped slate roof and is constructed from brown, yellow, red, and blue brick. It has a moulded ashlar eaves cornice above red brick machicolations and a parapet. The façade includes nine ranges of industrial windows that are round arched with iron glazing bars and ashlar keystones. There is a recessed loading bay with a semi-circular relieving arch above it, which has a tympanum filled with patterned brown and yellow brick and a shield bearing the EP monogram. All the listed buildings at Messrs Eldridge Pope's Brewery are part of a group.

Local climate

Bonded Warehouse and Former Bottling Stores of Messrs Eldridge Popes Brewery 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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