4, Fore Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 1966. Cottage.
4, Fore Street
- WRENN ID
- empty-remnant-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 November 1966
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 4, Fore Street, Evershot
- OS grid reference
- ST 574 045
- Coordinates
- 50.83888, -2.60528
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 4 Fore Street is a detached estate cottage dating from the later 19th century. It features dressed stone walls and ashlar stone quoins, topped with a slate roof that has gable ends. A central brick stack with a stone verge is located at the ridge. The cottage is one and a half storeys high and has two windows on the ground floor, which are designed with ovolo-moulded stone mullions and separate labels above. Both windows are two-lights with iron casements that include glazing bars. The first floor has similar windows, which are half-dormers with gabled slate roofs and bargeboards. At the center, there is a flint and ashlar stone porch with a gabled slate roof. The doorway features moulded jambs and a four-centred arch head with continuous bracket moulding, along with a plank door and weatherboard. There are also pentice-roofed outhouses at the rear, which were built in the 19th century.
Local climate
4, Fore Street receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% 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 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
- No related consent applications matched
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