Ascham House is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1974. Villa.
Ascham House
- WRENN ID
- twisted-pedestal-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Bournemouth West MP: Jessica Toale (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 August 1974
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Ascham House, 18, Gervis Road
- OS grid reference
- SZ 096 912
- Coordinates
- 50.72064, -1.86418
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ascham House is a Tudor Gothic villa built in 1865 by Habershon and Pite, now part of the College of Technology. The building is constructed entirely of rich red brick, which includes dressings, relieving arches, and hoodmoulds. It has an asymmetrical design, featuring a prominent south-east tower topped with an ogee spire and a machicolated brick cornice. The entrance has Perpendicular panelling, and there is a central canted bay window on the ground floor that connects to a rectangular first-floor window through moulded brick squinches. The south-west entrance porch has been remodelled behind its gable. The east and west sides of the house have crow-stepped gables and dormers, while a shallow court to the north is flanked by wings that end in massive crow-stepped chimney breasts.
Local climate
Ascham House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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