Keeper's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1985. Cottage.
Keeper's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sharp-bastion-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Keeper's Cottage, Milton Abbas
- OS grid reference
- ST 819 023
- Coordinates
- 50.8202, -2.25718
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Keeper's Cottage is a former gamekeeper's cottage, likely built in the late 18th century. The cottage features walls made of brick with flint banding and has a thatched roof that is hipped at the left end, with a brick chimney stack at the right end. It is two storeys high. The entrance includes a ledged door sheltered by a thatched hood. On the ground floor, there are two casement windows with horizontal glazing bars, while the first floor has three similar windows. There is a single-storey extension at the left end, which also has a hipped thatched roof and one plain casement window. At the rear, there is a weatherboarded lean-to. Inside, the main ground floor room features a large open fireplace with a timber lintel and some exposed ceiling beams.
Local climate
Keeper's 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 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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