King Charles Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 1966. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
King Charles Cottage
- WRENN ID
- noble-pinnacle-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 November 1966
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- King Charles Cottage, the Square, Broadwindsor, DT8 3QD
- OS grid reference
- ST 437 026
- Coordinates
- 50.8203, -2.8005
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
King Charles Cottage is an attached cottage dating from around 1800, with a core that dates back to the 16th or 17th century. It features rubble stone walls and large quoins on the left side. The roof is made of Roman tiles and has stone gable-coping on the left. There is one rendered stack on the left side of the building. The cottage is two storeys high and has two windows, which are three-light 20th-century wooden casements with glazing bars and wooden lintels. The front door, located on the right side at ground level, is of plank and muntin style, studded, and has a wooden lintel above, also from the 20th century. A stone tablet on the building notes, "King Charles II slept here September 23-24 1651. Erected April 4th 1902." Inside, the cottage has mid-chamfered ceiling beams, and the roof structure consists of jointed crucks with large collar beams, dating from the 16th or 17th century.
Local climate
King Charles Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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