Gingerbread Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1959. Semi-detached cottages. 1 related planning application.
Gingerbread Cottage
- WRENN ID
- third-hall-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1959
- Type
- Semi-detached cottages
- Address
- Gingerbread Cottage, 57 and 58, Church Lane, Wool
- OS grid reference
- SY 847 865
- Coordinates
- 50.67832, -2.2177
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gingerbread Cottage is a semi-detached pair of cottages, likely built in the 18th century. No. 57 features plastered cob walls and a thatched roof, with a brick stack shared with No. 58. The cottages are one storey with attics. No. 57 has a stable door and the ground floor includes two horizontally sliding sash windows with glazing bars. The attic has two dormers with similar sash windows. Inside, the main room on the ground floor has a large open fireplace with a timber lintel and remnants of a bread oven, along with some exposed ceiling beams.
No. 58 has walls made of stone, brick, and cob on a stone base, also topped with a thatched roof and sharing a brick stack with No. 57. It is similarly one storey with attics and features a single-storey flat-roofed extension at the rear, along with a modern glazed door. The ground floor has two horizontally sliding sash windows with glazing bars, and the attic has two dormers with similar sashes. The interior of No. 58 has been modernised.
Local climate
Gingerbread Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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