Abbey House is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1967. House. 1 related planning application.
Abbey House
- WRENN ID
- gentle-pediment-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Winchester MP: Dr Danny Chambers (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Abbey House, Warnford, Winchester, SO32 3LB
- OS grid reference
- SU 619 228
- Coordinates
- 51.00142, -1.11878
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbey House is a house built in 1825 as a Rectory by the Reverend E Lancaster. The structure features brick walls in English bond with some blue headers and red flush dressings. It has a plinth, rubbed flat and round arches within ground-floor blind arches, a parapet with stone coping, and a deep decorative brick band with stone cills. The roof is a mansard hipped tile design with flat-roofed dormers.
The building has a classical square form, with a symmetrical east front that has two storeys and three windows. The windows are sashes set in reveals, with arched heads on the ground floor. The doorcase is designed in the Doric Order, featuring triglyphs and finely-fluted columns on the top two-thirds, two columns, and two pilasters. It has an arched opening with a decorative fanlight, an architrave, and a six-panelled door, all above stone steps.
The north elevation is also symmetrical, featuring full-height bows on each side, two storeys and an attic, with a window arrangement of 2.2.2. The ground-floor has deep casements with narrow side panes. The other elevations are irregular but include similar features, brick dentil eaves, and a large 20th-century French window on the south side.
Local climate
Abbey House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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