County Library with Flat Above is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1983. Library.
County Library with Flat Above
- WRENN ID
- hushed-entrance-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1983
- Type
- Library
- Address
- County Library with Flat Above, Fleet Street, Beaminster
- OS grid reference
- ST 480 013
- Coordinates
- 50.80921, -2.7385
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The County Library, which was formerly the Rural District Council Offices, is an early 19th-century building located on Fleet Street. It features ashlar stone walls with a plinth and has rendered string-course divisions that are flush with the surface. The roof is slate with gable ends and stone gable copings. The building has three storeys and four sash windows with glazing bars and stone cills, with smaller windows on the ground floor. There is a carriage entrance on the left side with rusticated stone jambs and a rusticated elliptical head. The second bay contains a doorway, now designated for Ladies, while to the right is another doorway with an elliptical head, good voussoirs, and "Town Offices" painted on it, featuring a two-leaf door with flush panels.
Local climate
County Library with Flat Above receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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