Steps House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Steps House
- WRENN ID
- graven-roof-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Steps House, Droves Lane, East Orchard, SP7 0LH
- OS grid reference
- ST 836 165
- Coordinates
- 50.94853, -2.23428
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Steps House is a farmhouse dating from around 1700, with a later 18th-century rear wing. The building features squared rubble walls, while the rear wing is constructed of brick. It has a steep hipped thatched roof with brick stacks positioned behind the ridge. The house is symmetrical, standing two storeys tall with attics, and has a three-window range. The windows are 2-light casements with glazing bars, and there are 20th-century glazed double doors.
Local climate
Steps House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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