Ship Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Ship Cottage
- WRENN ID
- weathered-railing-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Ship Cottage, 17, West Bay, Bridport, DT6 4EN
- OS grid reference
- SY 462 903
- Coordinates
- 50.71014, -2.76269
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ship Cottage is a building likely dating from the 19th century. It features a plastered exterior and a thatched roof that is hipped to the east, with a coped gable end on the west side. The cottage has two storeys, with sash windows and sliding casements. There is a square wooden bay that faces the sea, and a lean-to structure on the east side. Ship Cottage is part of a group that includes No 11, The Fountain, Messrs Norman Goods Warehouse, No 13 (Clarence House), the Methodist Church, the Bridport Arms Hotel, Gull House, The Dinghy, and Pier Terrace.
Local climate
Ship 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 74% 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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