Digby Estate No 10, Castleton is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1973. House.
Digby Estate No 10, Castleton
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-jamb-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Digby Estate No 10, Castleton, Oborne Road, Sherborne
- OS grid reference
- ST 646 169
- Coordinates
- 50.95133, -2.50467
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Digby Estate No 10, located on Oborne Road in Castleton, is a building dating from the late 18th century to the early to mid 19th century, featuring stone cladding that may conceal an earlier core. The structure is two storeys high and has a thatched roof with a dipping ridge and eaves line. The entrance front faces southeast. It includes wood casements, with a three-light casement and two two-light casements on the upper floor, and on the ground floor, from left to right, there is a ledged door in a frame with a lintel, a small three-light window with a lintel, and a two-light casement with a brick voussoir. A trellised porch is also present, along with a projection to the east of the porch.
This building is part of a group that includes Beech Cottage and its garden gate, the north-west boundary wall to Beech Cottage, Castle Farmhouse, the boundary wall to the south-west of Castle Farmhouse, Digby Estate No 9, Digby Estate No 10, the wall adjoining to the north, and an outbuilding at the north end of the wall of Digby Estate No 10, as well as an outbuilding attached to the south-west end of Digby Estate Nos 275 and 276, Digby Estate Nos 275 and 276, and an outhouse to the south-east end of Nos 275 and 276, forming a group with the outhouses to Castle Farm and the enclosing wall on the north-east side of Osborne Road.
Local climate
Digby Estate No 10, Castleton 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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