Former Riding School, Marabout Barracks is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1975. Former riding school.
Former Riding School, Marabout Barracks
- WRENN ID
- solitary-thatch-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1975
- Type
- Former riding school
- Address
- Former Riding School, Marabout Barracks, Poundbury Road, Dorchester
- OS grid reference
- SY 685 908
- Coordinates
- 50.71675, -2.44676
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Riding School at Marabout Barracks, built in 1799, is a rectangular building with a front made of red brick and a back constructed from stone rubble, featuring red brick quoins and facings. Both the front and back display a recessed arcaded design with five bays. The building has flat plastered imposts that run around it as a string course. It features large round-headed and semi-circular windows set within the bays of the arcading. The roof is hipped and covered with slate. The basement, which was previously used as an ammunition store, has battered outside walls.
Local climate
Former Riding School, Marabout Barracks 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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