Sheerness Cottage, Cann Court and Knapp Villa is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1973. Residential. 3 related planning applications.
Sheerness Cottage, Cann Court and Knapp Villa
- WRENN ID
- weathered-latch-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1973
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Sheerness Cottage, Cann Court and Knapp Villa, Salisbury Road, Shaftesbury, SP7 8NW
- OS grid reference
- ST 869 225
- Coordinates
- 51.00251, -2.18758
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sheerness Cottage, Cann Court, and Knapp Villa are a group of three houses dating from the early to mid-19th century. Sheerness Cottage has a rendered front, two window bays, and a doorway. It has windows without glazing bars, and a recessed round-headed doorway at the left end. An ashlar chimney stack is present. Cann Court has two bays facing Lower Blandford Road and four bays facing Salisbury Road, with a continuous frontage that links with the left bay of Sheerness Cottage. The Salisbury Road frontage is colour-washed with quoins, and features windows without glazing bars, including two round-headed windows on the ground floor of the fourth bay from the left. A C19 glazed porch features a four-panelled door, with some panels cut away and glazed. Knapp Villa’s main south-west front comprises two storeys and three windows with intact glazing bars. It has a rendered front and a slate hipped roof. The front facing Lower Blandford Road also has windows with intact glazing bars, and a door at the right end with some panels cut away and glazed. A later gently coved canopy on panelled ironwork extends across the whole front.
Local climate
Sheerness Cottage, Cann Court and Knapp Villa receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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