20, South Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 May 1952. House. 4 related planning applications.
20, South Street
- WRENN ID
- worn-quoin-barley
- 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
- 20, South Street, Wareham Town, BH20 4LT
- OS grid reference
- SY 923 872
- Coordinates
- 50.68498, -2.10977
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 20 South Street is an 18th-century building constructed of red brick with a pitched tile roof and stone slates above the eaves. It features a red brick chimney stack and stands two storeys tall with an attic. The building has a brick modillion eaves cornice and a doorway adorned with fluted Tuscan pilasters and an entablature. There is a modern shop window on the ground floor, one sash window on the first floor, and an attic dormer that has a hipped tile roof, tile-hung cheeks, and a casement window. This building is part of a group that includes Nos 2 to 10 even, The Unitarian Chapel, Nos 12 to 32 even, and the Holy Trinity Gallery.
Local climate
20, South 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 — 2 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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