Dorchester Meat Company Mess Room and Store is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1975. Mess room, store.

Dorchester Meat Company Mess Room and Store

WRENN ID
rusted-step-moon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 May 1975
Type
Mess room, store
Address
Dorchester Meat Company Mess Room and Store, Kings Road
OS grid reference
SY 699 902
Coordinates
50.71154, -2.4275
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Dorchester Meat Company Mess Room and Store is a building from the 17th or 18th century located on Kings Road. It is constructed from colour-washed limestone rubble, with the west side rendered. The roof is pitched and covered with pantiles, hipped at the south end. There are contemporary brick stacks without pots, featuring slates placed to shelter the flue. The building has two storeys and three ranges of windows; the first-floor windows have stone mullions and a hollow chamfer, while the ground-floor windows are modern. The steep gable end is topped with a tall stack on the east side, a characteristic often seen in 17th-century country houses in Dorset. This building is part of a group with other listed buildings on the east side of Kings Road, including Fordington House and the farm buildings in Athelstan Road.

Local climate

Dorchester Meat Company Mess Room and Store 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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