Kingston House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1971. House. 2 related planning applications.
Kingston House
- WRENN ID
- graven-remnant-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- Kingston House, Long Street, Sherborne, DT9 3DB
- OS grid reference
- ST 642 166
- Coordinates
- 50.948, -2.51037
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kingston House is a building located on Long Street, dating from 1625, with features from the 18th or early 19th century. It has a two-storey front made of pebbledash and is divided into two facets. The building has altered sash windows arranged in three window bays. The stone doorway is adorned with half-round tapered pilasters and a pediment, and it features a six-panelled door with a rectangular fanlight above. There is a stuccoed plinth at the base. Kingston House, along with Kingston Cottage, The Vines, and an outbuilding to the southeast, forms a cohesive group of structures.
Local climate
Kingston 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 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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