The Red House, forecourt walls and railings, and Grey Lodge is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1950. House. 6 related planning applications.
The Red House, forecourt walls and railings, and Grey Lodge
- WRENN ID
- last-grate-ash
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Red House, forecourt walls and railings, and Grey Lodge, Long Street, Sherborne, DT9 3BS
- OS grid reference
- ST 641 166
- Coordinates
- 50.94799, -2.51214
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Red House, along with its forecourt walls, railings, and Grey Lodge, is a notable building dating from the late 17th century, with a refronting that occurred in the early to mid 18th century. This two-storey structure features a five-window red brick front that is elevated above the road level and set behind a garden. It has a stone plinth, cornice, parapet, and chamfered quoins. The flat stone window architraves include key-blocks, and the stone doorway, which may be a later addition, has a rusticated round-headed opening flanked by Tuscan pilasters and an entablature. The entrance has a six-panelled door that has been altered and includes a fanlight.
On either side of the main building, there are low curving screen walls made of brick, which extend south at a lower level to the garden and railings. The forecourt features a red brick and stone dwarf wall topped with stone coping, along with stone piers that have capping. The 19th-century railings consist of uprights with spiked finials and panelled standards. Inside, the building retains late 17th and 18th-century panelling, a fireplace surround, and a staircase.
Grey Lodge is a two-storey extension built of rubble, featuring two window bays on the right side and a parapet. It has a peaked slate roof with one box dormer and sash windows that are three panes wide, showing sagging lintels on the first floor. There is also a long, one-storey addition, likely from the 19th century, against the east garden wall.
Both The Red House and Grey Lodge have stone slate roofs at the rear. Together with several nearby properties, including Donore, Eastbury House, Elizabeth House, and others, they form a significant group of buildings.
Local climate
The Red House, forecourt walls and railings, and Grey Lodge receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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