Golden House and Attached Outbuilding is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 1983. House. 11 related planning applications.

Golden House and Attached Outbuilding

WRENN ID
knotted-steeple-grove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 April 1983
Type
House
Address
Golden House and Attached Outbuilding, High Street, Thorncombe, TA20 4PF
OS grid reference
ST 375 031
Coordinates
50.82484, -2.88843
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Golden House is a 17th-century house with 19th-century windows, located on the south side of High Street in Thorncombe. The building features chert and stone rubble walls with large stone quoins and a concrete tile roof that has gable-ends and a hipped corner, supported by four brick stacks at the ridge and gable-ends. It has an L-shaped plan and a door on the northeast side. The house is two storeys tall with a four-window range positioned at right angles to the street. The ground floor windows have 20th-century metal frames, while the first-floor windows are 19th-century cast-iron casements. Inside, there is a deep-chamfered ceiling beam with run-out stops and a large open fireplace at the rear with a chamfered lintel. Attached to the house is an outbuilding that runs along the street, featuring rubble walls, brick quoins, and a slate roof. Golden House is an important feature in the High Street, notable for its curving street-frontage.

Local climate

Golden House and Attached Outbuilding 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 11 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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