Walnut Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Walnut Tree Cottage

WRENN ID
high-nave-heath
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 April 1986
Type
Cottage
Address
Walnut Tree Cottage, Village Street, Gussage All Saints, BH21 5ET
OS grid reference
SU 003 104
Coordinates
50.89317, -1.99645
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Walnut Tree Cottage is an 18th-century cottage that may include some earlier work, with 19th and 20th-century extensions and alterations. The building is made of rendered and whitewashed cob and has a thatched roof. There are brick stacks at both ends of the central range. The main range features a 19th-century addition on the left and a single-storey range of uncertain date on the right. The cottage has two storeys and attics, with a three-window range. It includes 20th-century casements with glazing bars and a central 20th-century door. The left gable wall has 19th-century cast-iron casements with pointed heads on the upper panes, with the ground floor window being a recent insertion.

Inside, there are few early features visible, but they may still exist beneath the plasterwork. The right end wall of the right-hand range contains a raised jointed cruck-truss that springs from a tie beam, which may be a reused element.

Local climate

Walnut Tree Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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