The Old House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1986. House.
The Old House
- WRENN ID
- stark-thatch-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 June 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old House, Sandford Orcas
- OS grid reference
- ST 622 208
- Coordinates
- 50.98546, -2.53883
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old House is a detached house built in the mid-18th century. It features squared dressed stone walls and a clay-tile roof with stone gable copings and simple moulded kneelers. There are brick stacks at each gable end. The house has two storeys and attics, with three windows that are three-light wood casements fitted with lozenge-leaded lights, dating from the 20th century. Dripstones are present over the ground floor windows. The front door, located at the centre, is a plank-and-muntin style from the 20th century, with a wooden canopy above it, also from the 20th century. At the rear, there are continuous outshuts.
Local climate
The Old House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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