Garth Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1952. House. 1 related planning application.
Garth Cottage
- WRENN ID
- spare-trefoil-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Garth Cottage, 393, High Street, Swanage, BH19 2NP
- OS grid reference
- SZ 015 789
- Coordinates
- 50.6101, -1.97999
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garth Cottage is a building likely dating from the 18th century. It features walls and a roof made of Purbeck stone, with brick stacks. The cottage is two storeys high and has a modern glazed door. On both the ground and first floors, there are two double-hung sash windows that include glazing bars.
Local climate
Garth Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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