4a, West Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. Commercial building. 1 related planning application.
4a, West Street
- WRENN ID
- veiled-bracket-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 4a, West Street, Blandford Forum, DT11 7AJ
- OS grid reference
- ST 884 062
- Coordinates
- 50.85605, -2.16608
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 19th-century block located behind number 4 West Street, extending northwest. The building is three storeys high, with a further two storeys extending northwest. It is constructed of red brick and grey brick headers laid alternately, with rubbled brick voussoirs around the windows. There are ten windows on the upper floors and six on the lower floors, with some missing glazing bars. A doorway is present, featuring stone pilasters and an entablature. Numbers 2 to 8 (even) are historically grouped with the listed buildings in Market Place.
Local climate
4a, West Street 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 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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