Fordington Mill is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1975. Mill. 1 related planning application.
Fordington Mill
- WRENN ID
- muffled-rampart-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1975
- Type
- Mill
- Address
- Fordington Mill, Mill Street, Dorchester, DT1 1LQ
- OS grid reference
- SY 699 906
- Coordinates
- 50.71442, -2.42671
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fordington Mill is a 19th-century building that has been completely altered, but it retains two features from an earlier structure. These features include a 4-centred ashlar arch with a hollow chamfer and a recessed panel with plain and hollow chamfers, framed by cable moulding. The panel bears the initials WC, the date 1590, and a seated figure in high relief that once displayed an achievement of arms, now largely obliterated.
Local climate
Fordington Mill 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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