Cornhill House. Including Front Garden Railings and Wing to North-East Down Cornhill. is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1973. House. 2 related planning applications.
Cornhill House. Including Front Garden Railings and Wing to North-East Down Cornhill.
- WRENN ID
- bitter-pediment-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Cornhill House. Including Front Garden Railings and Wing to North-East Down Cornhill., Acreman Street, Sherborne, DT9 3PQ
- OS grid reference
- ST 634 168
- Coordinates
- 50.94976, -2.5219
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cornhill House is a stone house dating from 1625, with alterations and additions from the 18th and early 19th centuries. It is situated on Acreman Street and features a three-window stone rubble front facing down Cornhill. The windows are sash windows, with panes arranged three wide, and a half-pane on either end of the lower windows. A small triangular front garden is enclosed by iron railings and a gate, with spear-headed finials on the uprights and urn finials on the standards. A two-storey wing connects Cornhill House to Kitt Hill House at the north-east end of the Cornhill front; the portion belonging to Cornhill House is two window bays wide, with sash windows above. A segmental-headed carriage entrance is on the ground floor, accessed via modern ledged doors. The house has stone rubble walls and a slate gabled roof. The front garden railings and wing, along with Digby Estate Nos 121 and 122, form a group with Kitt Hill House, its garden walls, and railings.
Local climate
Cornhill House. Including Front Garden Railings and Wing to North-East Down Cornhill. 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 — 3 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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