Cromwell Cottage is a Grade II* listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1961. A C16 Detached house.
Cromwell Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dark-wattle-gold
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1961
- Type
- Detached house
- Address
- Cromwell Cottage, Village Street, Leigh
- OS grid reference
- ST 620 086
- Coordinates
- 50.87571, -2.54079
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cromwell Cottage is a detached house that dates from the mid to late 16th century, with alterations made in the early 17th century and early 18th century. The cottage features rubble stone walls and a thatched roof with coped gables and brick end stacks. It has one storey and an attic.
The entrance includes a ledged door set within a 4-centred arch that has a hoodmould above it. There is a date stone above the door marked IR 1628. To the left of the door, there is a 4-light stone mullioned window with lead lights, also under a hoodmould. To the right of the door, there are one 3-light and one 4-light similar windows. In the attic, to the left of the door, there is another 4-light window without a hoodmould, which is slightly dormered. To the right of the door, there is a date stone marked 1726. Above the original wall plate, there are two timber mullioned windows with lead lights. At the rear, there is a small 20th-century single-storey lean-to extension.
Cromwell Cottage is of open-hall origin and may have been a long-house. Inside, the left ground floor room features a large open fireplace with a timber lintel and jambs. The roof at this end is constructed using jointed cruck. There is a heavy plank and muntin partition with a shouldered arched doorway between the left room and the original cross-passage. The right end room also has a large open fireplace with a timber lintel and some chamfered ceiling beams.
Local climate
Cromwell 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 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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