Virginia House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1983. House.
Virginia House
- WRENN ID
- sunken-pedestal-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Virginia House, 120, High Street, Swanage
- OS grid reference
- SZ 026 786
- Coordinates
- 50.60796, -1.96403
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Virginia House is a building likely dating from the late 18th century. It features walls and a roof made of Purbeck Stone, along with a stone chimney stack that has moulded caps. The structure is two storeys high and has a central doorway with an arched stone head, which contains a modern door. On the ground floor, there are double-hung sash windows, each with arched stone heads. The first floor also has double-hung sash windows. A projecting stone band course runs beneath the cills and above the heads of the first-floor windows. There is a square stone above a modern name plate, which may have originally displayed a name or date.
Local climate
Virginia 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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