56 and 57, High West Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. House. 6 related planning applications.
56 and 57, High West Street
- WRENN ID
- pale-outpost-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- 56 and 57, High West Street, Dorchester, DT1 1UT
- OS grid reference
- SY 690 907
- Coordinates
- 50.71533, -2.43944
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 56 and 57 High West Street are a pair of houses dating to 1849, built of stucco. Each house presents a three-story, two-window front. They have a deep 19th-century cornice decorated with modillions, a rusticated ground floor, and quoins. The first-floor windows feature moulded architraves and cornices resting on console brackets, while individual cast-iron balconies are present. Second-floor windows also have moulded architraves. The houses originally featured panelled doors framed by pilasters and fanlights; the ground floor now has modern windows. The site was previously occupied by the town house of the Trenchard family of Wolfeton. During the First World War, No. 57 served as a depot for the Dorset Territorial Force Association, and it remained the headquarters of that association during the Second World War. Nos. 48 to 65A (inclusive), along with the Shire Hall, Holy Trinity Church, the Museum, St. Peter's Church and the monument to William Barnes in the adjacent churchyard, form a group of buildings of group value.
Local climate
56 and 57, High West Street 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.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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