Purns Mill House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.
Purns Mill House
- WRENN ID
- pitched-wicket-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Purns Mill House, Gillingham, SP8 4HJ
- OS grid reference
- ST 806 280
- Coordinates
- 51.05146, -2.2768
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Purns Mill House is a mid 19th-century house constructed of ashlar stone with a hipped slate roof. It features end pilaster strips and rendered stacks in various locations. The eaves are overhanging and bracketed. The house is symmetrical, standing two storeys high with three bays. The windows are sashes with glazing bars, and the ground floor windows have additional margin bars. A central porch with a flat roof and pilasters adds to its architectural character.
Local climate
Purns Mill House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
- 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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