Thornbank and Little Thornbank is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1971. Residential. 2 related planning applications.
Thornbank and Little Thornbank
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1971
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Thornbank and Little Thornbank, Long Street, Sherborne
- OS grid reference
- ST 640 165
- Coordinates
- 50.9477, -2.5128
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 18th-century to early to mid-19th-century front of a house, originally known as Thorn Bank. It has a roughcast front with three bays, and the window arrangement is irregular. A stone cornice tops the building, followed by a parapet. The sash windows have lost their glazing bars. The lower windows are wider and feature stone architraves and keystones. A stone doorway is topped with pilasters and an entablature, leading to a six-panelled door and a rectangular fanlight with rectangular tracery.
A cement-rendered addition on the right side has a gabled roof covered in plain tiles. It includes two square modern sash windows above, and a larger sash window with a stone architrave and keystone below. Another doorway with a similar frame leads to a six-panelled door and a rectangular fanlight.
The property is situated within a group that includes Cromwell, Belmont, Wistaria House, and Little Thornbank, alongside dwarf walls and railings pertaining to the Congregational Chapel, its schoolroom, and associated features.
Local climate
Thornbank and Little Thornbank 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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