Corner House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1973. House.
Corner House
- WRENN ID
- empty-lancet-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Corner House, Long Street, Sherborne
- OS grid reference
- ST 644 167
- Coordinates
- 50.94923, -2.50791
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Corner House is a stone cottage dating from the 18th to 19th century, situated on Long Street. It is two stories tall with an attic and is part of a block that includes Linden and The Cottage. The building features a hipped plaintile roof facing Long Street, with a lower roofline and a gable at the back wing. The front elevation on Long Street has one bay with a three-light segmental headed casement window that has small panes, and the corner is curved. The higher block facing New Road has two window bays with casement windows that also have small panes; the upper windows are two-light and square-headed, while the lower window is three-light and segmental headed. There is a door on the left side. The south wing is two bays wide, with two-light casements above and three-light casements with segmental heads below. Corner House, along with Digby Estate Nos 271 to 274 (consecutive), Wyekham Cottage, Fernleigh, The Shell, Mistletoe Cottage, Fairfields, The Malt House, Eastfields, Tyndall, and Linden and The Cottage, forms a group of buildings of architectural significance.
Local climate
Corner 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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