Higher Wrackleford Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. Cottage.

Higher Wrackleford Cottages

WRENN ID
quiet-cloister-evening
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 May 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Higher Wrackleford Cottages, 1, 2, 3, 4, Stratton
OS grid reference
SY 662 933
Coordinates
50.73836, -2.47937
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Higher Wrackleford Cottages is a row of four cottages dating from the early to mid-18th century, with some later brickwork. The cottages have rubble-stone walls that are rendered, with brick walling at the upper right. They feature a thatch roof that is half-hipped at both ends. There are three brick stacks located at the party walls on the ridge, which date from the 19th century and have been renewed in the 20th century. The cottages are 1½ storeys high and have five windows on the ground floor, along with ten eyebrow dormers above. The windows are 2-light wooden casements with glazing bars, with some renewals from the 19th and 20th centuries, and they have wooden lintels and cills. The front doors are plank style with wooden framing, and there are plank wooden porches for cottages 1 and 2. Outhouses at the right-hand gable end are not of special interest.

Local climate

Higher Wrackleford Cottages receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% 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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