383, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1983. Cottage.
383, High Street
- WRENN ID
- burning-pediment-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 383, High Street, Swanage
- OS grid reference
- SZ 015 789
- Coordinates
- 50.61019, -1.97922
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 383 on High Street is a traditional Purbeck cottage, likely dating from the 17th century, though it has been somewhat altered. The walls are made of Purbeck Stone and are colourwashed, topped with a Purbeck Stone roof and featuring a brick chimney stack. The building is one storey with an attic. The doorway has a raised cement surround that imitates stone quoins and includes a half-glazed door. There are two modern windows on the ground floor and two part-dormers in the attic, each with pent roofs and modern casement windows. This cottage is noted as RCHM Monument 64.
Local climate
383, High Street 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
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