Abbey House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1950. House. 1 related planning application.
Abbey House
- WRENN ID
- dark-storey-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- Abbey House, Abbey Road, Sherborne, DT9 3LD
- OS grid reference
- ST 637 166
- Coordinates
- 50.9481, -2.51722
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbey House is a three-storey building located on Abbey Road, dating from around 1840. The right side of the front is set back and constructed of stone ashlar, featuring a neo-classical design with three windows. The second floor has sash windows with glazing bars, while the building displays chamfered quoins and a coved cornice adorned with honeysuckle enrichment. There are dormers present, and the central first-floor window is flanked by scrolls and has a semi-circular tympanum with a low relief base. The building features a projecting Roman Doric porch supported by fluted columns and antae, with a porch cornice that has an enriched cove similar to the main cornice. The frieze is decorated with vine ornament, and the door panels are also enriched. At the back, there is a staircase wing with round-headed windows. Currently, Abbey House serves as a boarding house for Sherborne School.
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 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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