Paradise House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1986. Detached house.
Paradise House
- WRENN ID
- little-zinc-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1986
- Type
- Detached house
- Address
- Paradise House, Holt
- OS grid reference
- SU 049 052
- Coordinates
- 50.84716, -1.93132
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Paradise House is a detached house that was formerly a farmhouse, dating from the mid to late 18th century. It features brick walls topped with a dentil cornice and a tiled roof that has stone eaves courses and externally projecting brick end stacks. The building is two storeys high with an attic and has a plat band at the first-floor level. The entrance includes a raised panel door located in a porch with a gabled roof. On the ground floor, there are four cross-pattern casements with glazing bars, while the first floor has five similar windows. The attic contains three hipped dormers with casements that have a centre horizontal glazing bar. Inside, the main ground floor rooms are equipped with fireplaces featuring elliptical brick arches, and there is a closed string stair with splat balusters.
Local climate
Paradise House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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