6, West Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 May 1952. House. 2 related planning applications.
6, West Street
- WRENN ID
- quiet-ember-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 May 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- 6, West Street, Wareham Town, BH20 4JU
- OS grid reference
- SY 922 873
- Coordinates
- 50.68589, -2.11067
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 6 West Street is an 18th-century building made of brown brick, featuring red brick dressings and voussoirs. It has a pitched tile roof and a red brick chimney. The building stands two storeys tall with attics, showcasing a moulded and dentilled brick eaves cornice and a coped parapet. The ground floor has been modernized, while the first floor has three cased sash windows. There are two attic dormers with hipped tile roofs, tile-hung cheeks, and sash windows with glazing bars set in moulded frames. The building also displays a badge of the Lord of the Manor. It is part of a group that includes the Red Lion Hotel and Nos 2 to 12 (even).
Local climate
6, West Street receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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 — 6 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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