Garden House at the Alcove is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1986. Garden house. 1 related planning application.
Garden House at the Alcove
- WRENN ID
- proud-stronghold-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 October 1986
- Type
- Garden house
- Address
- Garden House at the Alcove, Church Street, Yetminster, DT9 6LG
- OS grid reference
- ST 594 107
- Coordinates
- 50.8948, -2.57728
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Garden House at The Alcove is an 18th-century garden house located on the west side of Church Street in Yetminster. It features a brick wall that includes an elliptical recess beneath an elliptical stone arch, which is flanked by stone pilasters. The arch is moulded and has a projecting keystone. The wall is swept up to the center, topped with moulded coping and a stone finial. The entire structure is raised on two semi-circular stone steps. This garden house serves the garden of The Alcove, a mid-20th century house that is not of special interest.
Local climate
Garden House at the Alcove 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 sale records on file
- 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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