Oak House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1960. House. 1 related planning application.
Oak House
- WRENN ID
- riven-thatch-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1960
- Type
- House
- Address
- Oak House, Old School Lane, Iwerne Minster, DT11 8NF
- OS grid reference
- ST 868 144
- Coordinates
- 50.92905, -2.1888
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak House is a village club, later converted into a private house, built in 1923. It was designed by Ballie Scott for James Ismay. The house is constructed with timber framing, rendered and banded with flint and ashlar, and has a half-hipped tiled roof with stone slatemargins. It follows a cruciform plan and is an example of the Arts and Crafts style. The house is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical arrangement of windows. It features casement windows with leaded lights. A two-storey porch has a panelled door set beneath a four-centred head.
Local climate
Oak House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2000
- 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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