Abbot's Fee is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1950. House. 3 related planning applications.
Abbot's Fee
- WRENN ID
- western-flagstone-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- Abbot's Fee, Greenhill, Sherborne, DT9 4EP
- OS grid reference
- ST 636 169
- Coordinates
- 50.95066, -2.51837
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbot's Fee is a Grade II listed building located on the north side of Greenhill, dating from around 1625. It is situated next to Ramsam House, with its frontage set back. The building features a three-storey stone front with two windows, showcasing Tudor casements that have label moulds, likely from the early to mid-19th century. A projecting porch, also from this period, is supported by shafted columns.
The front of Abbot's Fee includes three carved stone quatrefoil panels, with the outer ones partially obscured—one by a buttress and the other by the return wall of the adjacent house. This indicates that some of the masonry may have medieval origins, possibly from Abbot Ramsam's New Inn, which was demolished around 1842. The building's front is adorned with a moulded cornice, a panelled parapet, and dormers, topped by a plaintile roof.
Abbot's Fee is part of a group of listed buildings on the north side of Greenhill, extending from Newell Cottage to Belmont, and on the south side from Delta to the premises occupied by Godden and Curtis.
Local climate
Abbot's Fee 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 — 1 transaction since 2017
- 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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