8, King Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 February 1983. Commercial.
8, King Street
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-lancet-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 February 1983
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- 8, King Street, Wimborne Minster
- OS grid reference
- SZ 008 998
- Coordinates
- 50.79842, -1.98893
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 8 King Street is an 18th-century building with a 19th-century rear extension. The main structure features rendered walls and a tiled roof, while the extension has brick walls and a tiled roof, with a brick chimney. The building is two storeys high. The front elevation includes a double hung sash window with a moulded cornice supported by brackets, which may indicate it was once a shop. On the first floor, there are two double hung sash windows with glazing bars. The rear extension also has double hung sash windows.
Local climate
8, King Street receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% 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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