37-40, SOUTH STREET (See details for further address information) is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1975. Commercial building.
37-40, SOUTH STREET (See details for further address information)
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-arch-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1975
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 37-40, SOUTH STREET (See details for further address information), 40a, Dorchester
- OS grid reference
- SY 692 904
- Coordinates
- 50.71301, -2.43732
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 37 to 40 on South Street are mid-19th century brick buildings that rise three storeys with an attic, featuring late 19th century shopfronts. They have a moulded wood cornice. Notably, No 39 has a tablet commemorating that Thomas Hardy worked here as an architect's pupil from 1856 to 1862. No 40 displays a tablet inscribed with "William Barnes the Dorset poet lived here 1847-1862." These buildings, along with Nos 1 to 6 South Terrace, No 40A, No 41A, and the Post Office, form a cohesive group.
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