Corscombe House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1983. House. 4 related planning applications.

Corscombe House

WRENN ID
weathered-grate-ochre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 December 1983
Type
House
Address
Corscombe House, DT2 0NU
OS grid reference
ST 522 048
Coordinates
50.84154, -2.67952
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Corscombe House is a detached house that was formerly the Rectory. It dates from the 17th century, with a front wing added in the 18th century and a rear wing from the 19th century. The building features stone walls that are rendered and buttressed, with three sets of offsets. It has a slate roof with stone gable copings and stone stacks at the left-hand gable and the ridge center, along with a brick stack at the right-hand gable end facing the front. The house is two storeys high with attics.

On the east elevation, there are three windows with three-light hollow-chamfered stone mullions, each with labels above. The upper windows have two lights and renewed concrete lintels. The 19th-century porch has a four-centred entrance arch with a label above and square stops. The door features bottom panels and two lights above, which were formerly pointed, and has pointed-arch panelled reveals.

Inside, the house has large, well-fitting flagstones. There is a stone fireplace in the north end wall with a Tudor-arch head, recessed spandrels, and a massive stone lintel, along with moulded stone jambs.

Local climate

Corscombe House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 — 1 transaction since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 4 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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