Crabb Cottage and Former Cart Shed is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1982. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Crabb Cottage and Former Cart Shed
- WRENN ID
- final-wall-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Crabb Cottage and Former Cart Shed, Church Street, Shapwick, DT11 9LA
- OS grid reference
- ST 937 016
- Coordinates
- 50.81408, -2.09008
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Crabb Cottage and the former cart shed date from the late 16th to early 17th century. The building features walls made of stone, brick, and cob, topped with a thatched roof and a brick chimney. It is one storey high with attics. The current layout has one room on each floor, although it may have originally extended further to the south. The south wall was rebuilt in brick during the 18th or 19th century. The north gable wall, which contains the chimney, is constructed in a chequer pattern of brick and stone. On the east wall, the ground floor has one casement window with a central glazing bar, while the attic features a dormer with casements. The entrance is located in the south wall and consists of a part-glazed door. The ground floor includes two casement windows with glazing bars, and the attic has two similar windows in the gable. The main room on the ground floor has a large open fireplace with a timber lintel and a bread oven. There are two deeply chamfered ceiling beams with cyma stops. To the west of the house is a former cart shed, which is single-storeyed with cob walls and a thatched roof. This cart shed is now incorporated into the house and connected by a flat-roofed lobby. It is reputed to have been the former Priest's House.
Local climate
Crabb Cottage and Former Cart Shed 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 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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