42 and 44, Dorchester Road is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1974. Semi-detached houses. 5 related planning applications.
42 and 44, Dorchester Road
- WRENN ID
- little-clay-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1974
- Type
- Semi-detached houses
- Address
- 42 and 44, Dorchester Road, Weymouth, DT4 7JZ
- OS grid reference
- SY 679 805
- Coordinates
- 50.62333, -2.45496
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
These are a pair of semi-detached houses located on Dorchester Road, Weymouth, dating from approximately 1830 to 1840. The houses are rendered and have slate hipped roofs. They are two storeys high, originally designed as a symmetrical pair, but now possessing differing details.
Number 42 features 12-pane sashes, including a hipped canted bay with pilaster mullions and a dentil cornice. A six-panel door is situated beneath a radial fanlight, accessed by a single step. A small dormer is present on the return, along with a 12-pane sash window and a deep stair sash. Number 44 exhibits a small dormer above plain sashes. A 20th-century door is set within an ogee tent porch supported by brackets, which has a cast iron column on the right and a solid cheek on the left. The left return of number 44 displays a deep stair light.
Architectural details include a mid-sill band, moulded cornice, a blocking course and a coped parapet, and a central stack. The interior has not been inspected. The houses were likely constructed around the same time as the adjacent St Augustine's Church and numbers 34 and 40, forming a group.
Local climate
42 and 44, Dorchester Road receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% 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 — 3 transactions since 1996
- 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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