Pitman House is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1952. Detached house.
Pitman House
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-frieze-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- Stroud MP: Dr Simon Opher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1952
- Type
- Detached house
- Address
- Pitman House, Orchard Street, Wotton-Under-Edge, GL12 7EZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 757 932
- Coordinates
- 51.63712, -2.35159
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pitman House is a detached house from the early 19th century. It has a smooth rendered exterior and a hipped slate roof. The building stands three storeys tall and features three window sashes with glazing bars set in deep reveals. The entrance includes a six-panel door with a traceried fanlight, framed by a stone surround topped with an open pediment supported by brackets. A wooden cornice runs along the eaves. To the left of the door, there is a plaque that notes Sir Isaac Pitman invented his system of shorthand known as Phonography here in 1837.
Local climate
Pitman House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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