Riverside Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Cottage.
Riverside Cottage
- WRENN ID
- roaming-hall-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Riverside Cottage, Winterbourne Steepleton
- OS grid reference
- SY 625 898
- Coordinates
- 50.70719, -2.53113
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Riverside Cottage is a detached cottage located in Steepleton Village, dating back to the 17th century, with later heightening. The building features squared rubble-stone and banded stone walls, topped with a thatched roof that has gable ends. There are brick stacks at the end gables. The cottage is two storeys high and has three windows that have been renewed with three-light metal casements and glazing bars, along with wooden cills and lintels. At the centre of the upper storey, there is a two-light wooden casement. The front door, located centrally, is a plank door with one glass light, dating from the 20th century.
Local climate
Riverside Cottage 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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