Twyford is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1973. House, shop. 1 related planning application.
Twyford
- WRENN ID
- grim-brass-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1973
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- Twyford, Westbury, Sherborne, DT9 3EH
- OS grid reference
- ST 638 163
- Coordinates
- 50.94557, -2.51649
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a two-story, three-window building, constructed around the late 18th or early 19th century, and situated on the east side of Westbury. It adjoins number 251. The front of the building is rendered in stucco. It has a slate roof and sash windows with intact glazing bars on the first floor. On the ground floor, a later inserted shop front is visible, alongside a half-glazed shop door coupled with a house door consisting of four flush panels and a three-light rectangular fanlight above. A fascia is present over the main entrance, flanked by console brackets. A sash window with four panes is situated at the right-hand end of the ground floor. The building is part of a group which includes numbers 251 to 255, the Sherborne Do-it-Yourself Centre, the Wessex Club, Digby Estate No 247, the Sherborne Gallery, Westbury Studio, Dolphin House, Estcourt and Brookfield.
Local climate
Twyford 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 — 1 transaction since 2021
- 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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