Osmington House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 October 1986. House. 3 related planning applications.
Osmington House
- WRENN ID
- tall-passage-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 October 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Osmington House, Main Road, DT3 6ES
- OS grid reference
- SY 726 831
- Coordinates
- 50.64724, -2.38766
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Osmington House is a large house situated within grounds, dating from the mid to late 19th century. The house is constructed of dressed Portland stone with rusticated and part vermiculated stone quoins. A prominent ashlar plat band runs between the two storeys. The roof is slate, gabled, with wood cornices, and stone stacks are located on the side walls and at the rear of the main block.
The south elevation has seven windows arranged in a pattern of 2:3:2, with gabled end bays projecting forward from the central block and linked by a stone screen. The windows are sash windows with thin glazing-bars and crown glass, stone cills, keystones, and lintels. The first-floor windows are Venetian. The side walls, two storeys high and with four windows, feature sashes of a similar design.
The front door, positioned on the right side of the east wall, is a 20th-century wood door with three recessed panels. It is set within a stone porch supported by coupled Roman Doric piers and columns, topped with an entablature and balustrade. A rear service range is attached, constructed to match the main house, with a plat band, two storeys, and four windows containing sashes with ashlar jambs.
Local climate
Osmington 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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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 — 5 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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