Bandstand and surrounding twelve park benches is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1975. A C20 Bandstand. 1 related planning application.
Bandstand and surrounding twelve park benches
- WRENN ID
- young-portal-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1975
- Type
- Bandstand
- Address
- Bandstand and surrounding twelve park benches, Borough Gardens, West Walks Road, Dorchester, DT1 1RG
- OS grid reference
- SY 689 904
- Coordinates
- 50.71278, -2.44125
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The bandstand and twelve surrounding park benches, located in the Borough Gardens on West Walks Road, were built in 1905. The bandstand features a rubble plinth and is supported by eight cast iron columns that hold up an octagonal lead pagoda roof. The roof is topped with an elaborate weathervane and has eaves adorned with cast-iron trellis work acroteria at the center of each side, along with anthemia at the corners. The columns have delicate Composite capitals that support ornate trellis work brackets. Additionally, there is an elaborate cast iron balustrade. The twelve park benches have very elaborate cast iron ends.
Local climate
Bandstand and surrounding twelve park benches 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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