Keeper's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1986. Cottage.
Keeper's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- patient-stone-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 June 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Keeper's Cottage, Castleton
- OS grid reference
- ST 666 163
- Coordinates
- 50.94606, -2.4768
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Keeper's Cottage is a detached cottage dating from the late 18th century. It features brick walls that are rendered and has slate roofs with stone gable copings. The cottage is 2½ storeys tall and has three windows, which are three-light wood casements with glazing bars arranged diagonally. Above the front door, there is a single-light casement. The cottage also includes two-light dormers with wood casements that have glazing bars. At the center, there is a brick porch from the 18th century, topped with a gabled slate roof, and it has a plank door with weatherboarding.
Local climate
Keeper's 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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