Abbey House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. A C14 House.
Abbey House
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-lancet-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- House
- Address
- Abbey House, Church Street, Abbotsbury
- OS grid reference
- SY 578 851
- Coordinates
- 50.6645, -2.59835
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbey House is a detached house that was formerly a farmhouse and part of the monastic buildings located east of the cloister. It incorporates materials from the 14th century, with alterations from the 17th and 19th centuries. The exterior features rubble-stone and dressed stone walls, topped with a slate roof that has stone gable copings, a scroll-kneeler at the left end, and a half-hip at the right end. There is a stone stack with a castellated parapet on the left gable and a brick stack from the 18th century to the right of center.
The house has two storeys and dormers, with four windows on the first floor. Ground floor openings include a square 19th-century two-light bay window with a hipped slate roof, a three-light cast-iron casement with a wooden lintel above, a porch with a flush panel wooden door and hipped slate roof, another three-light bay window with a hipped slate roof, a small rectangular medieval window, and a three-light wooden casement. On the first floor, there are two three-light 19th-century cast-iron casements with wooden cills, along with two three-light wooden casements. The north ranges, dating from the 17th century, feature stone gable coping and an apex-block, with two-light wooden casements on the west side.
Inside, there are two back-to-back fireplaces with dressed stone jambs and saw-cut wooden lintels, as well as a wooden lintel with a large chamfer and stepped stops. The adjoining wing has a stone slab roof and a very tall gable-end chimney with a castellated parapet and set-offs. Additionally, fragments of 12th-century sculpture from the abbey are built into the structure.
Local climate
Abbey 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 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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