King John's House is a Grade I listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 August 1951. A C13 Hall house.
King John's House
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-cellar-martin
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Test Valley
- Constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North MP: Caroline Nokes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 August 1951
- Type
- Hall house
- Address
- King John's House, 5-9, Church Court, Romsey
- OS grid reference
- SU 352 212
- Coordinates
- 50.98985, -1.49958
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
King John's House, dating from around 1230, is a hall house that was part of the medieval Abbey. The hall is located on the first floor, with a similarly sized room on the ground floor and a cellar. The west wall features an early English window with fine moulding and a hood-mould decorated with dog-tooth patterns. There are traces of other early English windows with similar mouldings in the three westernmost bays of the nave, which were added between 1210 and 1230. An outside staircase is present on the west wall, south of the window, but is now concealed by Tudor Cottage. The external walls are constructed of flint with stone quoining. A plain doorway in the east wall possibly leads to a former chapel.
Local climate
King John's House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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