The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1974. Cottage.

The Cottage

WRENN ID
mired-balcony-brook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Constituency
Christchurch MP: Sir Christopher Chope (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 March 1974
Type
Cottage
Address
The Cottage, Millhams Street
OS grid reference
SZ 159 928
Coordinates
50.7352, -1.77602
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cottage is an early 19th-century small red brick cottage with a hipped slate roof. It stands two storeys tall and features two windows with glazing bars, including round arched casements above and sash windows below. The entrance has a round arched six-panelled door, with the top two panels now glazed. The Cottage is part of a group that includes the United Reform Church, its attached Sunday Schools, and graveyards on both sides of Millhams Street, along with Nos 4 and 5.

Local climate

The Cottage receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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