West Wing of Floracre is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1971. Wing of a house.
West Wing of Floracre
- WRENN ID
- grey-casement-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1971
- Type
- Wing of a house
- Address
- West Wing of Floracre, Yeovil Road, Sherborne, DT9 4BB
- OS grid reference
- ST 632 168
- Coordinates
- 50.9496, -2.52437
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The west wing of Floracre, located on Yeovil Road, dates from the 19th century. It is a two-storey building with an attic and features two window bays. The roof is covered with modern plain tiles, and the front is finished in roughcast. Notable architectural details include chamfered quoins and a central half dormer. The small windows are two-light casements, and the doorway is topped with a segmental hood supported by iron brackets. This building is part of a group that includes Barton Farmhouse, Barton Farm Cottage, a garden wall to Barton Farmhouse, Cliff House, Smithy, Rosemary Cottage, Ryme Cottage, and the east and west wings of Floracre.
Local climate
West Wing of Floracre 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.
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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
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