Digby Estate is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1973. Estate. 2 related planning applications.
Digby Estate
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-hearth-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1973
- Type
- Estate
- Address
- Digby Estate, 46-50, Coldharbour, Sherborne, DT9 4HB
- OS grid reference
- ST 639 171
- Coordinates
- 50.95228, -2.51527
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Digby Estate, located on Coldharbour, consists of a series of stone rubble structures built in the late 18th century to the 19th century. The buildings numbered 46 and 47 are two storeys with an attic, each featuring one window bay and an inner doorway that has a blind centre panel on the first floor. They have a slate hipped roof and a central hipped dormer. The sash windows are four panes wide with frames, and the doors are ledged with frames, complemented by shallow rectangular fanlights with four lights.
Access to buildings 48 and 49 is via a path to the left. Building 48 is also two storeys with an attic, featuring one window bay and a doorway. It has a two-light casement dormer and sash windows below with intact glazing bars. The door is ledged and framed. Building 49 has two window bays and a central doorway, with two-light wood easements that have segmental heads, and a segmental-headed doorway with a wood door. Building 50 is two storeys with two window bays and a central doorway, topped by a pantile gabled roof. It features two-light casements with small panes and a ledged door in a frame, positioned to the left of the centre.
The Digby Estate buildings numbered 33 to 39, along with Nos 1 and 2 Rose Cottage, the former Queen's Head Public House, The Cottage, and Nos 46 to 50, form a cohesive group.
Local climate
Digby Estate 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1996
- 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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