Duck Cottage, Duckling Cottage and Peter's Finger is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Duck Cottage, Duckling Cottage and Peter's Finger

WRENN ID
lone-step-scarlet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
Duck Cottage, Duckling Cottage and Peter's Finger, Duck Street, Chideock, DT6 6JR
OS grid reference
SY 421 927
Coordinates
50.73179, -2.82068
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · EPC · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Duck Cottage, Duckling Cottage, and Peter's Finger are two attached cottages dating from around the early 18th century. The cottages have rubble stone walls, with the right-hand side rendered. They have a continuous thatched roof with gable ends. A brick stack is located at the left-hand gable. The cottages are one and a half storeys high, featuring five windows with two- and three-light casements, including glazing bars, wooden cills, and lintels. A 20th-century wooden front door is situated at the right side of Peter’s Finger. Duck Cottage has a plank door with brick jambs. Three sleeper buttresses are visible on the Duck Cottage elevation.

Local climate

Duck Cottage, Duckling Cottage and Peter's Finger receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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  • Sale history — 7 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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  • 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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