Hembury House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1984. A Early 19th century House.
Hembury House
- WRENN ID
- fading-stone-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hembury House, Hembury Lane, Askerswell
- OS grid reference
- SY 525 931
- Coordinates
- 50.73588, -2.6736
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hembury House is a detached house dated 1814. It features dressed stone walls and a thatched roof with gable ends. There are brick stacks at each gable, with the left stack dating from the 20th century. The house has two storeys and three windows, which are sashes with glazing bars that have been renewed. The windows have wooden cills, stone lintels, and keystones. The front door is centrally located and made of wood, featuring six glass lights, with a 20th-century wooden canopy above it. The 20th-century rear wing is not included in the listing.
Local climate
Hembury House receives an average of 810 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 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% 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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