Eastbury Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1950. Cottages.
Eastbury Cottages
- WRENN ID
- upper-pavement-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1950
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Eastbury Cottages, 1 and 2, Long Street, Sherborne
- OS grid reference
- ST 642 166
- Coordinates
- 50.94796, -2.51094
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Eastbury Cottages, located on Long Street, date from around the late 17th century and feature a later roughcast front and a patent pantile roof with cresting. The building is two storeys high, with each house having a two-window layout and uniform three-light wood casements. The structure includes chamfered quoins and a stone plinth. The doorways are linked under a single hood, adorned with reeded pilasters and shaped brackets. The proportions of the cottages are long and low, with attractively spaced windows. Internally, there is panelling. Eastbury Cottages, along with St Swithin's Cottage and the Outbuilding to the southwest of Eastbury Hotel, form a group.
Local climate
Eastbury Cottages 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 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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