Rock House, Including Boundary Wall and Pump is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1961. House. 1 related planning application.
Rock House, Including Boundary Wall and Pump
- WRENN ID
- guardian-thatch-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1961
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rock House, Including Boundary Wall and Pump, Queen Street, Yetminster, DT9 6LL
- OS grid reference
- ST 593 108
- Coordinates
- 50.8955, -2.57965
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rock House is a detached house built around 1720, with alterations made in the early 19th century. It features rubble stone walls with raised ashlar quoins and a tiled roof with coped gables and brick end stacks. The house is two storeys with attics and has an L-shaped plan, including a later 19th-century rear infill block.
The east elevation facing Queen Street has a six-panel raised panel door set in an open porch with a concave pyramidal roof supported by slender columns. On the ground floor, there are two stone mullioned windows with flat mullions; the left window has casements with glazing bars, while the right window has sashes with glazing bars. The first floor also has two similar windows, and there is a small casement in the attic gable at the right end.
The elevation facing High Street features a two-storeyed semi-circular bow window at the left end, which has stone mullions and sashes with vertical glazing bars, a moulded cornice, and a flat roof. To the right of this bow window, there is a two-light stone mullioned window with sashes with vertical glazing bars on each floor.
At the rear of the house, there is a pump dated 1811. Inside, the ground floor room in the southeast corner has a large fireplace with an 18th-century surround, while the northeast corner room features a plaster cornice with acanthus detail. There are several raised panel doors, including one at the rear of the kitchen set in a chamfered stone surround. Additionally, there is a stone boundary wall along High Street.
Local climate
Rock House, Including Boundary Wall and Pump receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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