Hardyes School Craft Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1975. School.
Hardyes School Craft Centre
- WRENN ID
- scarred-latch-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1975
- Type
- School
- Address
- Hardyes School Craft Centre, Icen Way, Dorchester
- OS grid reference
- SY 694 906
- Coordinates
- 50.71452, -2.43345
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hardye's School Craft Centre is a building from 1910, featuring a rendered exterior and a hipped slate roof with brick stacks. It is two storeys high. The right side of the building has two ranges of sash windows with glazing bars and horizontally rusticated quoins. The windows have continuous moulded sills, and there is a continuous stringcourse at the impost level of the ground floor. The ground floor windows are surrounded by rusticated surrounds and aprons, while the first-floor windows feature scrolled architraves and unique dentilled cornices that curve slightly upwards to triple keystones. There are three blank cartouches situated between the stringcourse and the first-floor sill level.
The left side of the building is set back in a concave channeled recess, flanked by two slightly tapering pilasters with festoons at the top, leading to a shaped gable with coping and a finial. The ground floor has double doors flanked by Ionic three-quarter columns supporting a plain frieze and cornice, all within a segmental arch that includes dentils, a moulded extrados with scrolls and a festoon below, and a triple keystone above, with enriched spandrels. The first floor features a four-light window on a sill that spans from one buttress to another, divided by three Ionic columns with Tuscan responds, supporting an oversized entablature that has "Girls' School" inscribed on the frieze. The gable displays a cartouche with the dates "1850-1910."
Local climate
Hardyes School Craft Centre 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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