Church Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1975. House. 4 related planning applications.

Church Cottage

WRENN ID
forbidden-lantern-snow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 May 1975
Type
House
Address
Church Cottage, Grey School Passage, Dorchester, DT1 1XG
OS grid reference
SY 691 907
Coordinates
50.71563, -2.43819
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church Cottage is an 18th-century building located on the west side of Grey School Passage. It is constructed of chequer brick and features a hipped modern roof, along with an original brick stack. The cottage has two storeys, with modern cased sashes fitted in the original openings—five on the first floor and four on the ground floor, all of which are segment-headed. There is also a modern door set in an original segment-headed opening. Church Cottage is part of a group of listed buildings in Grey School Passage.

Local climate

Church 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2014
  • Related listed building consents — 4 applications
  • 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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