Grey Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1983. Cottage.
Grey Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sacred-belfry-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Grey Cottage, 40, North Street, Beaminster
- OS grid reference
- ST 484 014
- Coordinates
- 50.81065, -2.73259
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grey Cottage is a single cottage dating from around 1800. It features coursed lias stone walls and a slate roof with tile ridges. The cottage has three brick chimneys located at the gable end facing the street, at the ridge junction, and on the right-hand ridge. It is two storeys high and both the north and west sides have three windows. The north side has two- and three-light wooden casement windows with glazing bars and wooden sills, complemented by flush stone voussoirs. The west side has three-light windows with wooden frames and wood lintels above. The front door is located in the angle of the building; it is a plank door with a 20th-century canopy above.
Local climate
Grey Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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