Hill Farm Cottage Southways the Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1983. Cottage.
Hill Farm Cottage Southways the Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- kindled-mantel-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Hill Farm Cottage Southways the Old Cottage, Seaborough
- OS grid reference
- ST 429 061
- Coordinates
- 50.85203, -2.81202
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill Farm Cottage, Southways, and the Old Cottage are three attached cottages dating from the 18th century. They feature rubble-stone walls, with the right-hand cottage having rendered stone walls that are washed. The cottages have thatch roofs, with stone gable copings on the right-hand house. There are brick stacks located at the left-hand gable below the ridge of Southways, and at the right-hand center and right-hand gable of the Old Cottage. The buildings are two storeys high and have a total of approximately eight windows. The windows are irregularly arranged, consisting of two and three-light wooden casements with wooden lintels. Southways includes one 19th-century cast-iron casement. The Old Cottage has a central door with three glass lights above it and features a pentice-roofed porch covered with asbestos slates.
Local climate
Hill Farm Cottage Southways the Old Cottage 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 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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