North West Block of Former Infantry Barracks is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1975. Barracks.
North West Block of Former Infantry Barracks
- WRENN ID
- woven-column-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1975
- Type
- Barracks
- Address
- North West Block of Former Infantry Barracks, Bridport Road, Dorchester, DT1 1SQ
- OS grid reference
- SY 686 907
- Coordinates
- 50.71545, -2.44558
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The north west block of the former Infantry Barracks, built between 1876 and 1877, is possibly designed by Major A C Seddon, who was the head of the War Office design branch at that time. The building is constructed of rock-faced Portland stone with ashlar dressings. It features a three-storey gatehouse that is connected by one-storey wings to two-storey end pavilions. The structure includes decorative bands and a crenellated parapet on the gatehouse. The roofs are pitched slate, hipped over the pavilions.
The gatehouse has a three-centred archway flanked by round-headed lancets. The first floor contains four round-arched sash windows with glazing bars, with the centre two set in a round-headed relieving arch. The second floor has three round-arched sashes with glazing bars. Each wing features six round-arched sashes with glazing bars. The end pavilions have three ranges of windows each, and all windows are linked by hoodmoulds.
Local climate
North West Block of Former Infantry Barracks 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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