Mulberry House is a Grade II listed building in the East Hampshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1963. House, former rectory.
Mulberry House
- WRENN ID
- slow-stronghold-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hampshire
- Constituency
- East Hampshire MP: Damian Hinds (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1963
- Type
- House, former rectory
- Address
- Mulberry House, Village Street, Bentworth
- OS grid reference
- SU 667 402
- Coordinates
- 51.15761, -1.04743
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mulberry House is a house that was formerly a rectory, built in 1818, with a service wing added in the mid-19th century. The building features stucco walls, painted brickwork on the wing, and a slate roof. It has a square block shape with a plain classical design, standing two storeys high with an attic. The symmetrical front, facing southeast, includes three windows and has a low-pitched hipped roof with a raised lead flat in the center and a small flat-roofed dormer.
The exterior has plain walls, a moulded fascia along the low parapet, a plain cill band at the first floor, and a plinth. The windows are sashes set in reveals, with small circular lights on each side of the entrance, though the west side is filled in. The entrance features a Doric porch with two columns 'in antis', flanked by pilasters at the corners and against the main wall. The smooth columns support an entablature decorated with dentils and triglyphs, and the interior soffit has guttae decoration. Above the wide doorway, there is a plain panel, and the entrance has half-glazed double doors, all accessed by two steps.
On the garden elevation, which faces northwest, the details are similar, but it includes a round-headed lower central window and a balcony with wrought iron rails beneath a panelled feature that consists of an arch between pilasters supporting a segmental head. There is a low central doorway with a half-glazed door, and the ground floor has triple sashes beneath cambered arches.
The southwest elevation features a narrow central window on the first floor, with stacks joined by a balustraded parapet, and lead rain-water heads dated 1818. To the northeast, there is a lower narrow one-bay continuation of the main block, set back from each elevation, which connects to the later service wing. The service block is symmetrical, with a two-storeyed center and single-storeyed wings on each side, one of which has a high dormer. It has a hipped roof in the center, with brick dentil eaves, painted brick walls with cambered openings, and sashes, including triple-lights in the center.
Local climate
Mulberry House receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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