Elsa Chapman is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 June 1953. Attached house with shop premises. 3 related planning applications.
Elsa Chapman
- WRENN ID
- white-tallow-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 June 1953
- Type
- Attached house with shop premises
- Address
- Elsa Chapman, 3, the Square, Beaminster, DT8 3AS
- OS grid reference
- ST 479 013
- Coordinates
- 50.80912, -2.73942
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Elsa Chapman is an attached house with shop premises dating from the 18th century. It features ashlar stone walls set on a stone chamfered plinth. The building has a stone dentil cornice with a fillet beneath it, and a slate roof with stone slate eaves and stone gable copings. There is a renewed brick stack on the left-hand gable. The house is two storeys high and has two windows, including a large canted bay on both the ground and first floors, which contain wooden sashes with glazing bars. The front door is located on the right side at ground level; it is framed by half-columns with Tuscan capitals and bases, and has a triglyph frieze above. A moulded cornice steps out over the side orders. The reveals of the door are fielded-panel with a square head, typical of the 18th century. The door itself now has four lights but was originally panelled.
Local climate
Elsa Chapman receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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