Cob Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1955. Cottage.
Cob Cottage
- WRENN ID
- guardian-pinnacle-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1955
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Cob Cottage, Church Street, Shapwick
- OS grid reference
- ST 937 016
- Coordinates
- 50.81446, -2.08965
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cob Cottage is an 18th-century building located on Church Street in Shapwick. It features plastered walls built on a base of brick, stone, and flint, topped with a thatched roof and brick stacks. The cottage is one storey high with attics and includes a single-storey extension on the east side that is of similar construction. The entrance has a modern part-glazed door set within a rustic thatched porch. On the ground floor, there is one modern casement window with glazing bars and shutters, along with a similar window in the extension. The attic contains two dormers, each with similar casement windows.
Local climate
Cob Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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