Church House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 February 1983. House. 3 related planning applications.
Church House
- WRENN ID
- turning-spindle-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 February 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church House, High Street, Wimborne Minster, BH21 1HR
- OS grid reference
- SZ 009 999
- Coordinates
- 50.79902, -1.98755
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church House, dated 1905 on the weathervane, is located on the west side of High Street and adjoins the Minster. It was designed in a free Gothic style to harmonize with the Minster. The building features stone walls made from a mixture of limestone and ironstone, similar to those of the Minster, with roofs concealed behind a parapet. It has two storeys.
The elevation facing High Street includes an arched doorway set in a square frame and a ground floor mullioned window with lead lights. On the first floor, there is a Gothic style window with a four-centred arched head, also featuring lead lights. The elevation towards the churchyard has three large mullioned windows on the ground floor and five similar windows on the first floor, all with lead lights. There are moulded string courses at the first floor level and at the base of the parapet. A commemorative inscription is present on a stone in the front wall, and ornamental iron railings enclose the churchyard. The building is included for its group value with the Minster.
Local climate
Church House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% 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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