Chestnut Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1956. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Chestnut Cottages
- WRENN ID
- low-lantern-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1956
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Chestnut Cottages, 1 and 2, Front Street, Portesham, DT3 4ET
- OS grid reference
- SY 603 858
- Coordinates
- 50.67116, -2.56309
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chestnut Cottages are two attached cottages dating from the mid-17th century. They feature coursed rubble-stone walls and a combination of an asbestos slate roof and a 20th-century Roman tile roof. There are stacks located at the left-hand party wall and the right-hand gable. The cottages are two storeys high and have four windows on the ground floor. Cottage No. 1 has two three-light stone mullion windows that are hollow-chamfered and fitted with casements. Cottage No. 2 features wooden casements with segmental brick heads, including two-light and three-light windows. On the upper floor, both cottages have two-light wooden casements with glazing bars and lowered cills.
The doors include a depressed-arch doorway with straight-chamfered jambs from the 17th century for both cottages. No. 1 has a 20th-century plank door, while No. 2 has a similar doorway with a 20th-century plank-and-muntin door that includes one glass light.
Local climate
Chestnut Cottages 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 73% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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