8, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

8, High Street

WRENN ID
unlit-copper-willow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 January 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
8, High Street, Sydling St. Nicholas, DT2 9PB
OS grid reference
SY 631 994
Coordinates
50.79377, -2.52402
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 8 High Street is an attached cottage dating from the 18th century, with some restoration from the 20th century. The cottage has rubble-stone walls that are rendered and painted pink. It features a hipped thatch roof at the left end and a rendered stack on the right party wall. The building is two storeys high and has two windows on the upper floor, which are 2-light wood casements with horizontal glazing bars. The ground floor windows are fitted with 20th-century wood shutters that are planked and have strap hinges. The front door, located at the centre, is a plank door dating from the 19th century. There is a hipped thatch porch canopy supported by wooden posts, with 20th-century trelliswork sides.

Local climate

8, High Street receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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