The Dispensary is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1984. Dispensary, flats.
The Dispensary
- WRENN ID
- scattered-pavement-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1984
- Type
- Dispensary, flats
- Address
- The Dispensary, High Street, Wiveliscombe
- OS grid reference
- ST 081 277
- Coordinates
- 51.04191, -3.31178
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Dispensary is a building that dates from around 1800 and is now converted into flats. It features red sandstone random rubble masonry and a Welsh slate roof, along with a moulded cornice and brick stacks. The structure is two stories high and has one bay on each side. The windows are glazing bar sash types, with tripartite windows on the ground floor. There is a concreted cross-passage in the center, with the date 1800 carved in stone above the door. A rear entrance has a stone inscribed with "B.B. 1799." The Wiveliscombe Dispensary opened in 1804.
Local climate
The Dispensary receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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