Priest's House Museum is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1952. Museum, hall house. 9 related planning applications.
Priest's House Museum
- WRENN ID
- low-tracery-briar
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1952
- Type
- Museum, hall house
- Address
- Priest's House Museum, 23 and 25, High Street, Wimborne Minster, BH21 1HR
- OS grid reference
- SZ 009 999
- Coordinates
- 50.7995, -1.98758
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Priest's House Museum is a late 16th century or early 17th century hall house originally designed in a half-H plan with wings extending to the west. It has been altered and extended in the 18th century and later, with the wings now built flush against the main structure. The walls are made of stone with stone-and-flint banding, partly rendered, and there is some timber framing. The roofs are tiled with stone eaves courses.
The building retains many original features, including stone mullioned windows, the remains of a gable chimney on the north wing, a four-centred stone doorcase, and a fine ornamental plaster ceiling with a frieze in the north wing. This north wing, which was formerly the solar and parlour, also contains a concealed fireplace and wall paintings.
18th century features include a six-panelled door on the west front with an ornamental fanlight and pediment, as well as fireplaces, plaster cornices, and joinery. The Priest's House Museum is recognized as a particularly interesting and important early town house.
Local climate
Priest's House Museum 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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