73, West Street is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1986. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
73, West Street
- WRENN ID
- other-mantel-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 73, West Street, Corfe Castle, BH20 5HB
- OS grid reference
- SY 958 816
- Coordinates
- 50.63437, -2.05936
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a detached cottage dating to approximately 1700. It is constructed of rubble stone walls with a stone slate roof, featuring an ashlar stack at the left end and a brick stack at the right end. The cottage is set at a right angle to the road, with a small single-storey rear lean-to. A C20 timber porch shelters a ledged door. The ground floor has two casement windows; the first floor has one casement window with glazing bars, and one horizontally sliding sash window with remnants of lead lights. A fixed window is set into the gable end facing the road on the first floor. It is a National Trust property.
Local climate
73, West Street receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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