Minster House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1960. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Minster House
- WRENN ID
- haunted-gargoyle-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1960
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Minster House, Bridge Street, Sturminster Newton, DT10 1BZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 785 138
- Coordinates
- 50.92415, -2.30613
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Minster House is a 17th-century cottage that was refaced in the 19th century. The front is made of whitewashed brick, while the rear features rubble walls. It has a thatched roof that is hipped on the right side and gable-ended on the left. There is a brick stack located to the right of the center. The building is single storey with an attic. On the ground floor, there are three three-light wooden casement windows with horizontal glazing bars set under segmental arches. Above these, the dormers feature three-light ovolo moulded wooden mullioned windows with central opening lights. Inside, the cottage has stopped chamfered beams and a 17th-century plank and muntin partition with moulded muntins.
Local climate
Minster House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 5 transactions since 1995
- 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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