Yoah Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Cottage.
Yoah Cottage
- WRENN ID
- swift-pewter-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Yoah Cottage, West Knighton
- OS grid reference
- SY 733 878
- Coordinates
- 50.68978, -2.37875
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Yoah Cottage is a Grade II listed building that was originally three tenements. It dates from the mid 17th century and was extended to the north in the 18th century. The cottage features rubblestone and cob walls that are rendered and color washed, topped with a thatched roof that is hipped at both ends. There are brick stacks located at the left hip apex and at the ridge to the right of center. The building is 1½ storeys tall, with the south end being higher than the north end. It has six windows with irregular fenestration, consisting of two and three light casements, some with glazing bars and some without. The windows have wooden cills and lintels. There are four eyebrow dormers with wooden casements, featuring a mix of three, two, three, and two lights. The front door, located approximately at the center, is a re-made plank door with muntins and one glass light, dating from the 20th century.
Inside, the cottage has slightly chamfered ceiling beams with stepped stops. The left stack has an open fireplace with dressed stone jambs and a chamfered oak lintel that is dress stopped. The right stack features brick jambs and an oak lintel, with a bread oven on the right side, dating from the 18th century.
Local climate
Yoah Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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