Old Sandford House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1986. Detached former-farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Old Sandford House

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 June 1986
Type
Detached former-farmhouse
Address
Old Sandford House, Sandford Orcas, Sherborne, DT9 4SE
OS grid reference
ST 622 207
Coordinates
50.98472, -2.53937
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Sandford House is a detached former farmhouse, now a private house, dating from the mid-19th century. It features rubble-stone walls and slate roofs, which are gabled and hipped at the east end, with boxed eaves. The building has two storeys and four windows facing the street, which are three-light wood casements with glazing bars and wood cills. There is a plank and shuttered window on the right side at ground level, with segmental stone voussoirs above. The front door is positioned at an angle to the street; it is a flush-panel door with two top lights, also from the 19th century, and is sheltered by a pentice slate canopy supported by two wood posts. The east elevation also features three-light casements.

Local climate

Old Sandford 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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  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2011
  • 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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