15, High West Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. House. 1 related planning application.
15, High West Street
- WRENN ID
- sheer-hearth-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- 15, High West Street, Dorchester, DT1 1UW
- OS grid reference
- SY 691 907
- Coordinates
- 50.71513, -2.43864
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is an early or mid-19th century building on the south side of High West Street. It is constructed of colourwashed brick with a slate roof and a parapet. The building is three storeys high with an attic level. The first and second floors feature two bow windows, each with sash windows containing glazing bars. There are two attic dormers. A dentil eaves cornice runs along the building at the level of the second floor. The ground floor has a 19th-century shopfront characterized by iron columns with spirally fluted shafts, foliate capitals, and elaborate foliate brackets. The building forms a group with numbers 13, the Old Ship Public House, numbers 18 and 19, the Royal Oak Public House, numbers 21 to 24, and the Church of Our Lady.
Local climate
15, High West Street 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2004
- 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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