Bentham House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1986. A Victorian House. 6 related planning applications.
Bentham House
- WRENN ID
- north-iron-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bentham House, Bentham Lane, Purton, SN5 4HZ
- OS grid reference
- SU 091 897
- Coordinates
- 51.60624, -1.86935
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bentham House is a house dating from approximately 1850 to 1852. Constructed from ashlar limestone with a stone slate roof, it is two storeys and has attics. The architectural style is a robust early Victorian Gothic. The building originally had four bays, though the plan has been altered. The entrance is through a two-storey gabled porch located in the second bay, featuring a two-centred moulded arch with a hood, a canted oriel above, and pointed transomed lights. The first and fourth bays also have two-storey canted projections, incorporating blind quatrefoils in the spandrels and pierced parapets. Stone mullioned and transomed windows are present throughout. Dormers are set into bays 1, 3, and 4, each gabled with carved bargeboards. Stone chimneys have round shafts. A one-storey, two-bay billiards room was added around 1898 to the left side of the house. Bentham House was built for William James Sadler on land owned by the Shaftesbury Estate.
Local climate
Bentham House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 11 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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