Steps House, Including Coach House at Rear is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1986. Detached house. 1 related planning application.

Steps House, Including Coach House at Rear

WRENN ID
forgotten-clay-sunrise
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 November 1986
Type
Detached house
Address
Steps House, Including Coach House at Rear, Witchampton, BH21 5AR
OS grid reference
ST 993 070
Coordinates
50.86326, -2.01129
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Steps House is likely a late 16th- to early 17th-century detached house, probably originally a farmhouse. The walls are plastered, but the rear wall includes some visible timber framing, indicating the building may have originated as timber frame construction. The roof is hipped and thatched, with two brick stacks positioned near the ends. The house is two storeys high. The front entrance features a panelled door beneath a shallow pentice hood. On the ground floor, the right end has a 19th-century bay window with stone mullions and a hipped tiled roof. There are also two casement windows with glazing bars, and a third casement with bars in the upper panes. The first floor has three casement windows with glazing bars. A single-storey rear lean-to has a hipped slate roof. Inside, some of the ceiling beams are deeply chamfered with run-out stops. A coach house, located in the garden at the rear and likely dating from the 18th century, has walls that are partly timber framed and partly brick. It is topped with a hipped thatched roof and includes a timber-framed lean-to with a concrete tiled roof, and large timber doors.

Local climate

Steps House, Including Coach House at Rear receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
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