Peppercorn Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1986. Cottage.
Peppercorn Cottage
- WRENN ID
- cold-sandstone-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Peppercorn Cottage, Horton
- OS grid reference
- SU 036 078
- Coordinates
- 50.87001, -1.94912
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Peppercorn Cottage is a detached cottage that dates from the late 17th century to early 18th century, with extensions made at the right end and rear in the 20th century. The cottage features brick walls with a cob facing and a hipped thatched roof, supported by one brick stack at the left end and another to the left of center. It is one storey high with an attic. At the right end, there is a ledged door set in a porch with a hipped catslide roof, while a glazed door is located near the left end. The ground floor has four casement windows with glazing bars, and the attic includes three dormers with similar casements. Inside, the central stack has 'through' fireplaces with original lintels, and there is a timber-framed partition on the ground floor along with several exposed ceiling beams. The cottage underwent considerable repairs around 1980, but some original roof trusses remain.
Local climate
Peppercorn Cottage 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 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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