The Kennels is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1984. House, barns, stables.

The Kennels

WRENN ID
lunar-chancel-sedge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 March 1984
Type
House, barns, stables
Address
The Kennels, Morden
OS grid reference
SY 917 986
Coordinates
50.78724, -2.11855
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Kennels is a house, barns, and stables that enclose a courtyard, dating from the mid-18th century. The house features plastered walls, a hipped tiled roof with stone eaves courses, and a central brick chimney stack. It has two storeys and attics, with a central door that has a flat hood supported by brackets. The ground floor includes two double-hung sash windows with glazing bars, while the first floor has three similar windows. The attic contains two hipped dormers on the southeast side.

The courtyard is bordered by two large barns located on the northeast and southwest sides, although part of the southwest barn has been demolished. These barns have brick walls topped with a dentil cornice at the eaves, tiled roofs with stone eaves courses, and coped gables. The walls are buttressed and feature slit windows, with one elliptical arched doorway in the northeast barn. The roof trusses of the barns have curved braces.

On the northwest side, there is a single-storey stable range with walls that are partly brick and partly boarded, also featuring tiled roofs. A brick wall encloses the courtyard on the southeast side.

Local climate

The Kennels receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% 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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