Lime Tree House is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 October 1950. House. 2 related planning applications.
Lime Tree House
- WRENN ID
- fading-panel-snow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 October 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lime Tree House, the Plocks, Blandford Forum, DT11 7AA
- OS grid reference
- ST 885 064
- Coordinates
- 50.85705, -2.16463
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lime Tree House is an early to mid-18th century detached house with a two-story, five-window front. It is constructed of purple brick with red brick dressings, featuring a moulded eaves cornice and dormers. The windows are sash windows with flush frames and triple keystones. The doorway is distinguished by fluted Tuscan pilasters and a segmental pedimented hood supported by carved and foliated brackets.
Inside, a contemporary staircase retains panelling to dado level above a wall string. A northern room on the ground floor has fielded panelling extending to the ceiling. It contains a fireplace with a panelled overmantel and scrolled check pieces, and the fireplace surround features an eared archivolt, a pulvinated bay leaf frieze, and a cornice with an egg-and-dart bed-mould. The room also has a plaster ceiling.
Lime Tree House forms a group with Coupar House, the surrounding walls and railings, the stables, and numbers 2, 3, 5, and 7.
Local climate
Lime Tree House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 1995
- 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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