Westbury Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. Cottage.
Westbury Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stubborn-landing-primrose
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Westbury Cottage, Village Street, Tarrant Gunville
- OS grid reference
- ST 924 128
- Coordinates
- 50.91511, -2.10848
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Westbury Cottage is an early 18th-century cottage located on the south side of Village Street in Tarrant Gunville. The ground floor is constructed of flint and ashlar, while the upper floor is rendered and whitewashed. It has a thatched roof with brick stacks at the left end and along the ridge. The cottage is two storeys high and features a four-window range with two-light casements that have glazing bars. There is a thatched porch situated to the left of the centre. Inside, the cottage has exposed chamfered beams.
Local climate
Westbury Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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