Harper House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1973. Boarding house. 7 related planning applications.
Harper House
- WRENN ID
- ghost-jade-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1973
- Type
- Boarding house
- Address
- Harper House, Hound Street, Sherborne, DT9 3AD
- OS grid reference
- ST 639 166
- Coordinates
- 50.94851, -2.51409
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Harper House is an early 19th century stucco building located on Hound Street, now serving as a boarding house for Sherborne School. The house features a hipped slate roof with wide eaves. The west garden front includes a well-designed trellis veranda, while the west front has a doorway adorned with a fluted architrave and decorative paterae at the angle blocks. The south front is two stories high with two window bays, featuring balconies and French windows on the first floor. Inside, there is a contemporary staircase and a white and blue stone floor in the vestibule. Harper House, along with Nos 16 to 20 (even) and the boundary walls, forms a cohesive group along Hound Street.
Local climate
Harper 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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