Church Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. A C19 Cottage.
Church Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dusted-courtyard-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Church Cottage, Compton Valence
- OS grid reference
- SY 592 932
- Coordinates
- 50.73765, -2.57832
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Cottage is an extension to a manor house, now functioning as a cottage at the southern end. It dates from the early 19th century and features brick walls and a slate roof with a gable end facing south. The building has two storeys and includes two windows, which are 2-light cast-iron casements with wooden glazing bars, set beneath segmental brick window arches. There is a 19th-century brick porch at the south gable end, which has a round-headed arch. The entrance consists of a plank door with nine glass upper lights, dating from the 20th century.
Local climate
Church Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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