Ospringe House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1973. A C19 House.
Ospringe House
- WRENN ID
- mired-pilaster-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Ospringe House, 8, Newland, Sherborne
- OS grid reference
- ST 638 168
- Coordinates
- 50.94998, -2.51628
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ospringe House, located at No 8 Newland, is a building from the early to mid 19th century. It has two storeys and a basement, featuring three windows and one blind panel above. The windows are sash style, three panes wide. On the ground floor, there is a paired sash window on the left with stone dressings and a dripmould, and another sash window on the right, also with a dripmould. Four stone steps lead up to the stone doorway, which has a pointed head, plain ashlar spandrels, and a square dripmould. The entrance includes a six flush-panelled door with a triangular fanlight above. The roof is slate with a gabled design and a moulded stone eaves cornice. The building has painted brick fronts and a colour washed stone basement. Ospringe House is part of a group with Nos 8 to 12 (even) and the western range of No 16 (Hunt's Dairies), along with the North wing of Digby Estate Office on Cheap Street.
Local climate
Ospringe 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings