1, West Borough is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1952. House.
1, West Borough
- WRENN ID
- frozen-glass-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- 1, West Borough, Wimborne Minster
- OS grid reference
- SU 009 000
- Coordinates
- 50.80035, -1.9885
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 1 West Borough is an 18th-century building with brick walls laid in header bond and a brick dentil cornice at the eaves. It features a tiled roof with a stone eaves course and brick stacks. The building is two storeys high with attics and has a central doorway. The entrance consists of a six-panel moulded panel door topped by a fanlight with Gothic-style glazing, framed by a broken pediment on console brackets and moulded pilasters. There are two inserted shop windows that are canted bays with glazing bars and moulded cornices, along with glazed shop doors. On the first floor, there are three double-hung sash windows with glazing bars, each adorned with stone keystones above the arches. The attic includes two flat-roofed dormers, each featuring double-hung sash windows with glazing bars.
Local climate
1, West Borough receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% 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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