King's House Rumsey and Rumsey is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1952. A C18 House. 2 related planning applications.
King's House Rumsey and Rumsey
- WRENN ID
- peeling-stronghold-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- King's House Rumsey and Rumsey, 17, West Borough, Wimborne Minster, BH21 1LT
- OS grid reference
- SU 008 001
- Coordinates
- 50.80134, -1.9887
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
King's House Rumsey and Rumsey is an 18th-century building located on the west side of West Borough. It features brick walls with a brick dentil cornice at the eaves and a rendered platband at the first floor level. The roof is tiled, and there are brick stacks. The building has two storeys and an attic.
The central doorway has a six-panel raised panel door topped with a flat entablature supported by reeded pilasters. To the south of the door, there is a window that has been widened, featuring glazing bars and a brick arch that matches the original style. To the north of the door, there is a double-hung sash window with a central glazing bar. The first floor contains three double-hung sash windows with vertical glazing bars only. The attic has two dormers with hipped roofs, each fitted with side-hung casements and lead lights.
Local climate
King's House Rumsey and Rumsey receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
- 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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