27, Benville Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1983. Cottage.
27, Benville Lane
- WRENN ID
- lunar-newel-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 27, Benville Lane, Corscombe
- OS grid reference
- ST 537 036
- Coordinates
- 50.8302, -2.65835
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 27 Benville Lane is a detached cottage dating from the 18th century, with some restoration carried out in the 20th century. The building features brick and rubble-stone walls, accented by brick quoins and a stone plinth. It has a thatched roof with stone gable copings and includes one brick chimney stack on the left gable and one stone chimney stack at the right front gable, both from the 18th century. The cottage is two storeys high and has two windows in each range, which are 2-light wooden casements from the 20th century, complete with wooden cills. The entrance consists of a plank wooden door set within stone jambs, dating from the 19th century.
Local climate
27, Benville Lane receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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