The Curate's House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 1966. House.
The Curate's House
- WRENN ID
- under-casement-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 November 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Curate's House, Melbury Osmond
- OS grid reference
- ST 573 077
- Coordinates
- 50.86798, -2.6071
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Curate's House is a former curate's residence, now a private dwelling, dating from the early 19th century. It features coursed rubble-stone walls and a thatched roof, which has stone gable copings and moulded kneelers. The building has brick stacks at the gable ends that were renewed in the 20th century. It is two storeys high with attics and has three windows, which are two-light iron casements with lead lights set in wood frames, featuring dressed stone voussoirs from the 19th century. The front door, located at the centre, is flush-panelled and dates from the 20th century.
At the west end, there is an attached outbuilding with rubble-stone walls and a hipped slate roof that has boxed eaves. This outbuilding contains two- and three-light casements and a central plank door. Additionally, there are attached railings on a stone sleeper wall, with the railings topped with ball finials. A gate, designed to match the railings, leads to the front doorway, which is accessed by three stone steps.
Local climate
The Curate's House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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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