Ye Olde Cottage Including Garden Walls and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1973. Cottage.
Ye Olde Cottage Including Garden Walls and Railings
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1973
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Ye Olde Cottage Including Garden Walls and Railings, South Street, Sherborne
- OS grid reference
- ST 640 163
- Coordinates
- 50.94515, -2.51297
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ye Olde Cottage, dating from the late 18th century to the early to mid 19th century, is a low stone cottage located on the north-east side of South Street. It features two storeys and an attic with a two-window front. The cottage has three-light wood casements and a trellis porch, along with a four-panelled door that has the upper two panels glazed.
The garden walls are made of stone rubble, with a coping that projects forward from the front angle of the left-hand return, extending to a low panelled pier with a peaked capping. From this point, a low ashlar dwarf wall and railings run south to a stone pier next to the premises occupied by Hincanton Transport and Engineering Company Limited. The railings include uprights with spiked finials and standards with coved finials, along with a gate.
Ye Olde Cottage, along with Nos 1 to 8 (consecutive), Duck House including garden wall and railings, Gainsborough House including dwarf wall, railings and gate, an outbuilding to the south of Gainsborough House, gate piers to the Old Bidewell, The Antique Shop, and Lodbourne Hall, form a group of listed buildings.
Local climate
Ye Olde Cottage Including Garden Walls and Railings 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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