Nowell House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1973. House. 1 related planning application.
Nowell House
- WRENN ID
- ghost-tallow-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Nowell House, Acreman Street, Sherborne, DT9 3NU
- OS grid reference
- ST 636 164
- Coordinates
- 50.94599, -2.51809
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nowell House is an 18th-century building with alterations and a modern pebble-dash finish. It has a two-story, four-window front, with the southern three bays set slightly back. The roof is tiled, formerly with stone tiles at the eaves on the north end, and incorporates two hipped dormers. The windows are mostly sash windows, with later frames lacking glazing bars. A stone door surround features a moulded architrave and pediment supported by voluted console brackets; a deep keystone connects the door head to the underside of the pediment. The entrance is a six-panelled door with a rectangular fanlight, and reveals are panelled. A stone plaque located under the northernmost first-floor window bears the inscription "'This house in which he spent his last years was given to Sherborne School by William James Bensly. A Shirburnian well loved as boy and master. 1888- 1943'." Nowell House, along with Pineska, Salem, No 7, G F S Room, All Hallows, Askwith House, Digby Estate Nos 207, 208 and 209, and two outbuildings to the south of Digby Estate No 209, forms a group with the west return of the premises occupied by Mr Hunt, Trendle Street.
Local climate
Nowell House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2014
- 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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