Lower Ware is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1974. Residential. 4 related planning applications.
Lower Ware
- WRENN ID
- eastward-banister-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1974
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Lower Ware, Ware Lane, Lyme Regis, DT7 3EL
- OS grid reference
- SY 331 919
- Coordinates
- 50.72311, -2.94905
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Ware is a building from the early to mid 19th century, standing two storeys tall with a slate hipped roof and bracketed eaves. The front is finished in stucco. The entrance features splayed three-light bays on the first floor, supported by a columned portico leading to the doorway. The doorway has an archivolt and a six-panelled door, with the top four panels cut away and glazed. To the right on the ground floor, there is a sash window, and above it, a small window along with a circular lunette that provides access to a passageway below. A wing projects forward from the corner towards the entry, featuring two windows on the first floor. The garden front has two splayed bays, each two storeys high and containing three-light sash windows with glazing bars and horns.
Local climate
Lower Ware receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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