48, West Borough is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1952. House.
48, West Borough
- WRENN ID
- vast-pediment-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- 48, West Borough, Wimborne Minster
- OS grid reference
- SU 009 003
- Coordinates
- 50.80227, -1.98845
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 48 West Borough is an 18th-century building with brick walls and a slate roof, featuring brick stacks. It stands two storeys tall and has a platband at the first-floor level. The central doorway includes a six-panel door and a semi-circular fanlight with radiating glazing bars, framed by a classical surround with a broken pediment on console brackets and reeded pilasters. At the north end of the house, there is an archway that leads to a through passage. The ground floor has two double-hung sash windows with glazing bars, while the first floor has three similar windows.
Local climate
48, West Borough 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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