Somerleigh House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1983. A Georgian House.
Somerleigh House
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-solder-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1983
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- Somerleigh House, 191, High Street, Swanage
- OS grid reference
- SZ 025 786
- Coordinates
- 50.60792, -1.96496
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Somerleigh House is probably an early 19th century building located on the south side of High Street. It features Purbeck Stone walls and roof, with brick stacks. The house is three storeys tall. The ground floor has a 19th century shop front with windows and a door divided by moulded stone pilasters, along with a moulded stone cornice and stall risers. On the first floor, there are three double-hung sash windows and one blocked window. The second floor has three double-hung sash windows with glazing bars and one blocked window. The return wall facing Maxwells Lane includes one double-hung sash window with glazing bars on the second floor. There is a rear wing that extends into Maxwells Lane, which may have originally been a separate house. This wing also has Purbeck Stone walls, a slate roof, and a brick stack, and is two storeys tall. The ground floor of the wing has a door and two windows, one being a casement and the other fixed. The first floor has one casement window. Somerleigh House is an important building in the street.
Local climate
Somerleigh House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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