Stour Motors is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1960. House.
Stour Motors
- WRENN ID
- leaning-rood-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1960
- Type
- House
- Address
- Stour Motors, Queen Street, Gillingham
- OS grid reference
- ST 806 269
- Coordinates
- 51.04137, -2.27707
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Stour Motors is a house dating from the 16th century, with 20th-century alterations. It is built from coursed, squared rubble and features ashlar quoins. The roof is tiled and has end brick stacks. The building has two storeys and a three-window range. The upper floor includes three 20th-century three-light casements, while the ground floor has a similar window on the right and two 20th-century picture windows on the left. There is a 20th-century door located to the right of centre. Inside, there are heavily moulded ceiling beams and wall plates. According to the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, the original roof, which has five bays with collar and tie beam trusses and mortices for former windbracing, remains in place.
Local climate
Stour Motors receives an average of 830 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 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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