Rock House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1984. Detached house. 3 related planning applications.
Rock House
- WRENN ID
- salt-groin-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1984
- Type
- Detached house
- Address
- Rock House, Beaminster Road, Broadwindsor, DT8 3PX
- OS grid reference
- ST 438 024
- Coordinates
- 50.81893, -2.79789
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rock House is a detached house built around 1820. It features ashlar stone walls that are keyed and a slate roof with stone gable copings. The house has two storeys and three windows, which are sashes with glazing bars and stone voussoirs above. The heavy sash boxes have wooden cills. The front door is centrally located and has six recessed panels along with a stilted segmental fanlight above, both dating from the 19th century. At the rear, there is a continuous outshut under a catslide roof.
Local climate
Rock House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 4 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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