Nos 40 and 42 Including Garden Wall South of No 42 is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1959. Cottages. 3 related planning applications.
Nos 40 and 42 Including Garden Wall South of No 42
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1959
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Nos 40 and 42 Including Garden Wall South of No 42, East Street, Corfe Castle, BH20 5EQ
- OS grid reference
- SY 961 819
- Coordinates
- 50.63739, -2.0559
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 40 and 42, including the garden wall south of No. 42, are a pair of cottages located at the left end of a terrace, possibly originally built as one house, dating from the 18th century. They feature rubble stone walls and stone slate roofs, with one brick chimney stack at the right end and another in the center. The cottages are two storeys tall with attics.
No. 40 has a ledged door with a glass panel, and on the ground floor, there is one casement window and one horizontally sliding sash window, both with glazing bars. The first floor has two horizontally sliding sash windows with lead lights, and the attic includes one hipped dormer with casement windows that also have glazing bars.
No. 42 has its entrance in the south gable wall. The front wall features one ground floor casement window with glazing bars and two first floor horizontally sliding sash windows with lead lights. Both cottages have lean-to extensions at the rear, which are covered by catslide roofs.
The garden wall south of No. 42 is made of rubble stone and has cock and hen coping. This property is also a National Trust property.
Local climate
Nos 40 and 42 Including Garden Wall South of No 42 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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