Worth House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1984. A C19 Former vicarage. 4 related planning applications.

Worth House

WRENN ID
crumbling-pier-sunrise
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 December 1984
Type
Former vicarage
Address
Worth House, Worth Matravers
OS grid reference
SY 972 773
Coordinates
50.59619, -2.04015
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Worth House is a former vicarage, now a private house, built in the mid-19th century. It features rubble stone walls, stone slate roofs, and brick stacks with moulded stone caps. The building has an irregular plan and stands two storeys high with attics. The entrance front includes a projecting gabled wing on the left, which has a 2-light stone mullioned window with sashes on each floor. There is a shield set in a recess in the gable. To the right of this wing is the entrance doorway, which has a depressed four-centred arch and a ledged door. The ground floor features a 3-light stone mullioned window with sashes, while the first floor has two similar windows, one with two lights and another with one light. The attic includes one gabled dormer with casements.

Local climate

Worth House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% 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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