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
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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- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2004
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