Gaulter Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1984. Terrace. 1 related planning application.
Gaulter Cottages
- WRENN ID
- tenth-portal-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1984
- Type
- Terrace
- Address
- Gaulter Cottages, Kimmeridge
- OS grid reference
- SY 908 791
- Coordinates
- 50.61233, -2.13134
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gaulter Cottages is a terrace of ten former coastguard cottages, likely built around 1830. The cottages feature stone walls and a gabled slate roof with a parapet on the south gable. There are brick chimney stacks along the ridge. The buildings are two storeys high, with each cottage having a ledged door and one casement window with glazing bars on each floor, although a few windows have been replaced with modern versions.
Local climate
Gaulter Cottages receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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