Wall, railings and gate to Donore is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1973. A C17 Wall, railings, gate.
Wall, railings and gate to Donore
- WRENN ID
- scarred-keystone-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1973
- Type
- Wall, railings, gate
- Address
- Wall, railings and gate to Donore, Long Street, Sherborne, DT9 3BS
- OS grid reference
- ST 641 166
- Coordinates
- 50.94793, -2.51175
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The structure consists of a wall, railings, and a gate that serve the property known as Donore. These features date back to the early 17th century and include a key pattern in the railings. The front garden is enclosed by an ashlar dwarf wall. Extending beyond the westernmost part of the railings is a wall made of stone rubble with rounded coping, which continues westward to the outbuilding adjacent to the screen wall of The Red House. This structure is part of a group that includes The Red House, Grey Lodge, forecourt walls and railings to The Red House, Donore, Eastbury House, a carriage entrance to the east, a garden wall to the west, Elizabeth House, Bracondale, The Cedars, East Cedars, a garden wall adjoining The Cedars on the west side, Corby House, Hill View Lodge, Masongill, Glenville, and Long Street Post Office.
Local climate
Wall, railings and gate to Donore receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% 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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