Keeper's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. Cottage.

Keeper's Cottage

WRENN ID
twisted-span-heath
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 May 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Keeper's Cottage, New Barn Road, Abbotsbury
OS grid reference
SY 598 833
Coordinates
50.64872, -2.56951
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Keeper's Cottage is a detached cottage dating from the 18th century, with possibly an earlier core. It features rubble-stone walls and stone quoins, topped by a thatched roof with gable ends and rendered brick stacks. The building is two storeys high and has two windows, which are two- and three-light wooden casements with glazing bars, wooden cills, and concrete lintels. The entrance includes a plank door with a glass light in the center, sheltered by a rendered porch with a gabled slate roof.

At the north end of the cottage, there is an outbuilding that has rubble-stone walls and a half-hipped thatched roof. This outbuilding has a two-light cast-iron casement with glazing bars on the gable end and a three-light 20th-century casement on the south wall. At the rear of the cottage, there is an outshut featuring an original catslide thatched roof. Note that the 20th-century extension at the east end of the cottage is not listed.

Local climate

Keeper's 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 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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