Agriculture House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. House. 5 related planning applications.
Agriculture House
- WRENN ID
- leaning-sentry-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- Agriculture House, Acland Road, Dorchester, DT1 1EF
- OS grid reference
- SY 693 906
- Coordinates
- 50.71449, -2.43498
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Agriculture House is a late 18th century, two-storey red brick house with an attic, set within its own grounds. The front features five windows and a projecting porch supported by composite columns that hold up an entablature. There is a fluted frieze and an attractive semi-circular fanlight above double doors with six fielded panels. The house has a stone plinth and a moulded stone cornice decorated with alternating fluting and paterae. The parapet is topped with moulded stone coping and angle vases. There are two dormers on the front. The back elevation is stucco and includes a central round-headed window on the first floor, along with two dormers. Each end has a parapetted gable and a rectangular chimney stack, with kneelers at the gables. The rear appearance suggests 19th century alterations.
Local climate
Agriculture House 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 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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