Pyt House and Attached Front Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1951. House. 2 related planning applications.
Pyt House and Attached Front Walls
- WRENN ID
- ragged-floor-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 July 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Pyt House and Attached Front Walls, Pound Road, Thornford, DT9 6QD
- OS grid reference
- ST 604 130
- Coordinates
- 50.91599, -2.56386
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pyt House is a detached house dating from the late 17th century. It features dressed stone walls with Ham stone dressings and strings, as well as ashlar quoins. The house has a large thatched roof with gable ends and stone gable copings, and brick stacks at the gable ends that were rebuilt in the 19th century. The building is two storeys high with attics and has four windows on the ground floor, which have hollow-chamfered stone mullions arranged in groups of four, two, two, and four lights. The first floor has three windows with stone mullions in groups of three, two, two, and three lights. The windows are fitted with iron casements that have horizontal glazing bars.
A continuous label runs along the ground floor, stepping up over the doorway, which is centrally located and features straight-chamfered jambs and a depressed-arch head. The door itself is a plank door with two lights. Inside, the house consists of three units with a large central hall. The north room contains a stone fireplace with straight-chamfered jambs and a cambered head, dating from the late 17th century. The ceiling beams are mid-chamfered with run-out stops. On the first floor, there are some plank-and-muntin partitions from the landing to the south, also from the 17th century. The hall has a flagstone floor.
In front of the house, there are attached brick sleeper walls that are stone-coped, along with 19th-century iron railings and a gateway. The return walls of the house are also brick and stone-coped.
Local climate
Pyt House and Attached Front Walls receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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 — 1 transaction since 2008
- 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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