The Lawns is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1973. House. 5 related planning applications.
The Lawns
- WRENN ID
- guardian-lintel-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Lawns, Westbury, Sherborne, DT9 3EL
- OS grid reference
- ST 637 162
- Coordinates
- 50.94412, -2.51709
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Lawns is an early 19th-century building located on the east side of Westbury. It is a two-storey structure with a four-window front, featuring a cement-rendered exterior and a slate gabled roof. The three right-hand window bays are grouped closely together. To the left, there is a modern Georgian doorway, and further left, a contemporary doorway with a moulded architrave, fluted frieze, and dentil pediment, with a taller window above it. The Lawns is part of a group that includes Stonedyke House, Winton, The Firs, gate piers and railings to Winton and The Firs, as well as railings and a gate before The Lawns and the Digby Estate properties numbered 229, 232, and 233.
Local climate
The Lawns 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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