North Lodge to Deans Court is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1952. Lodge. 1 related planning application.

North Lodge to Deans Court

WRENN ID
rooted-cellar-crow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 June 1952
Type
Lodge
Address
North Lodge to Deans Court, Dean's Court Lane, Wimborne Minster, BH21 1EE
OS grid reference
SZ 010 998
Coordinates
50.79781, -1.98689
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

North Lodge to Dean's Court is a former lodge dated 1715, which is likely the year the original building was constructed. The main part of the lodge faces the road and was originally one room deep, with a projecting rear wing that is of the same date or slightly later. The main range was extended to the north in the late 18th to early 19th century and later increased to two rooms deep in the 19th century. There is a modern garage addition to the north.

The building features brick walls that are rendered on the front elevation, with tiled roofs and brick stacks. The front elevation has an entrance designed in an early Gothic Revival style. The door is curved in plan, with side panels that create a slightly recessed porch featuring a four-centred arch and a fanlight. To the south of the door, there is a pair of Gothic-style French doors, while to the north are two double-hung sash windows with glazing bars. The first floor has three similar windows and a plat band at the first floor level. The attic includes three dormers, two of which have lead lights, and one with plain fixed glazing.

At the rear, the projecting wing has two double-hung sash windows and a larger window with Gothic-style glazing on the ground floor, along with double-hung sash windows on the first floor. Where the main range has been extended, the roof has been flattened in pitch and slated, with half-dormers featuring double-hung sashes on each side of the projecting wing.

Internally, there is a late 18th to early 19th-century stair that rises around an open well behind the main range. The stair has a cut-string form, with spandril brackets, plain square balusters, and a moulded handrail. Above the stair at attic level is a gallery that is not accessible from the first floor, and there is a coved plaster ceiling above the stairwell.

Local climate

North Lodge to Deans Court receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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