Little Steppes is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1983. Cottage.

Little Steppes

WRENN ID
winter-mantel-bracken
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 March 1983
Type
Cottage
Address
Little Steppes, 42 and 44, Bell Street, Swanage
OS grid reference
SZ 017 788
Coordinates
50.60916, -1.97664
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Little Steppes is a pair of traditional Purbeck cottages located on Bell Street, dating from the 18th to early 19th century. The cottages feature Purbeck Stone walls and roofs, with rendered stacks. They are two storeys high and have lean-to additions at each end. Each house has a six-panel part glazed door and one double-hung sash window on each floor. There is a Purbeck Stone boundary wall along the street.

Local climate

Little Steppes receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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