Whitechurch House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. Vicarage, private house.

Whitechurch House

WRENN ID
sombre-mullion-holly
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 July 1955
Type
Vicarage, private house
Address
Whitechurch House, The Old Rectory, Chescombe Lane, Winterborne Whitechurch, Blandford Forum, DT11 0AP
OS grid reference
ST 836 001
Coordinates
50.80073, -2.23365
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Whitechurch House is a former vicarage, now a private house, built in 1743 and enlarged in 1781, with 19th-century additions. It features English-bond brickwork and a tiled roof with a slate verge, along with brick stacks positioned along the ridge. The building has a dentilled brick eaves course and is two storeys tall with six bays. The ground floor openings are set under rubbed brick flat arches, and there are nine-pane sash windows. The entrance includes a flush panelled door beneath a dentilled timber hood, located in the second bay from the right. The garden front features a 19th-century canted bay with glazing bars that form pointed lights.

Internally, the house has been much altered, but some original features remain, including a fireplace surround, a round-headed archway, and a moulded cornice in the entrance vestibule.

Local climate

Whitechurch House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% 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 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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