Top O Town House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1975. House. 5 related planning applications.
Top O Town House
- WRENN ID
- rusted-doorway-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1975
- Type
- House
- Address
- Top O Town House, Bridport Road, Dorchester, DT1 1XT
- OS grid reference
- SY 688 906
- Coordinates
- 50.71487, -2.44224
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 18th-century stucco house located on Bridport Road. It is a two-storey building with five bays of windows. The house has a moulded cornice and a parapet, topped by a slate roof. A doorway features an elliptical head and flanking stone columns, with a Doric entablature extending above as a hood. The windows are sash windows, and those on the first floor are accompanied by individual iron balconies.
Local climate
Top O Town House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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