Entrance to Oldmarket Playhouse and Arts Centre is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1973. Arts centre. 7 related planning applications.
Entrance to Oldmarket Playhouse and Arts Centre
- WRENN ID
- deep-pilaster-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1973
- Type
- Arts centre
- Address
- Entrance to Oldmarket Playhouse and Arts Centre, Bell Street, Shaftesbury, SP7 8AR
- OS grid reference
- ST 862 230
- Coordinates
- 51.00662, -2.19726
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The entrance to the Oldmarket Playhouse and Arts Centre, located at 13 Bell Street, dates back to 1615. This single-storey building features a gabled front made of ashlar stone, with a round window set in the gable. The entrance is round-arched and includes a keystone, with a modern door situated behind it. The gable is topped with coping along the parapet. This entrance is part of a group that includes Nos 13, 17, and 19.
Local climate
Entrance to Oldmarket Playhouse and Arts Centre receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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