Court House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1984. House.
Court House
- WRENN ID
- open-forge-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Court House, Whitchurch Canonicorum
- OS grid reference
- SY 393 954
- Coordinates
- 50.75531, -2.86053
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Court House is a single house dating from the 17th century, with 18th-century brick facing. It features red brick walls arranged in a regular pattern of burnt headers, set on a stone sleeper wall, with rubble-stone walls at the left end. The roof is thatched, with a hip on the left side and a gable end on the right. The building is 1½ storeys high and has two brick stacks, one located on the left hip and the other at the right gable. There are four wooden casement windows with glazing bars and wooden lintels. The front door, positioned to the right of center, is wooden and has two top lights, dating from the 20th century.
Local climate
Court House receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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