The Townhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1960. House, restaurant.
The Townhouse
- WRENN ID
- eternal-bracket-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1960
- Type
- House, restaurant
- Address
- The Townhouse, 31, Church Street, Sturminster Newton
- OS grid reference
- ST 786 140
- Coordinates
- 50.92575, -2.30444
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Townhouse is a house, now a restaurant, dating from around 1800. It is constructed of colour-washed brick in Flemish bond and has a tiled roof with no visible stacks. The building is two storeys high and features a three-window range. On the left side, there is a 19th-century shop front that is divided into lights by slender columns and has a dentilled entablature. To the right, there is a bow window with glazing bars. The centre of the building has a 20th-century door with a pedimental hood above it. Above the door, there are three 19th-century sash windows with vertical glazing bars, which are set under segmental brick arches.
Local climate
The Townhouse 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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