Sun and Moon Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1973. Cottage. 6 related planning applications.

Sun and Moon Cottage

WRENN ID
scattered-thatch-spring
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 October 1973
Type
Cottage
Address
Sun and Moon Cottage, Gold Hill, Shaftesbury, SP7 8JW
OS grid reference
ST 862 229
Coordinates
51.00564, -2.19686
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Sun and Moon Cottage is a building that dates back to 1615 and was formerly an inn. It features an 18th-century front but likely has an earlier core. The cottage is two storeys high and has three windows. It has a plain tiled gabled roof and a stuccoed front with a plinth. On the left side, there are three-light casement windows with small panes, both on the upper and lower floors. To the right, there are two sash windows that are four panes wide, along with a modern double-hung sash window at the far right. The ground floor includes a door with six flush panels, where the top four panels are cut away and glazed. A fine wrought iron bracket extends from the first floor of the house.

Local climate

Sun and Moon Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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