Dorset House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 October 1976. House.
Dorset House
- WRENN ID
- eastward-niche-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 October 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dorset House, 3, the Halve, Trowbridge
- OS grid reference
- ST 858 582
- Coordinates
- 51.32282, -2.20408
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dorset House is an early 19th-century building located on the northeast side of The Halve. It stands three storeys tall, constructed of brick on a stone plinth, and features a small moulded stone cornice and a parapet with coping. The roof is slate. The building has glazing bar sash windows, with five windows on the second floor that have stone voussoir heads and stone cills. The first floor originally had five windows, but now includes a modern two-storey bay on the left and four windows. On the ground floor, there is a bay to the left, one window, a single-storey bay from the 19th century, one 19th-century door with an arched fanlight, and one window without glazing bars on the right. There are modern lean-to extensions on both the left and right sides. Dorset House, along with Nos 3 to 6 and the gate piers and street wall to No 3, forms a group, with No 6 being of local interest.
Local climate
Dorset House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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