Ivy Cottage, Virginia Cottage and Jessamine Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1985. Cottage.

Ivy Cottage, Virginia Cottage and Jessamine Cottage

WRENN ID
steep-courtyard-finch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 November 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Ivy Cottage, Virginia Cottage and Jessamine Cottage, the Square, Cattistock, DT2 0JD
OS grid reference
SY 591 996
Coordinates
50.79481, -2.58128
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ivy Cottage, Virginia Cottage, and Jessamine Cottage are three estate cottages built in the mid-19th century. They feature greensand rubble walls with Ham stone quoins and dressings, and have straight-chamfered surrounds. The cottages have low-pitched slate roofs with gable ends and brick stacks located to the left and right of the center on the ridge at the party walls.

The buildings are two storeys high and have a total of six windows, which are three-light wooden casements with original glazing bars, each with eight panes. Above these, there are two-light wooden casements of the same design. The front doors of each cottage are positioned left of center, right of center, and right of center, and feature straight-chamfered stone jambs and four-centred heads. The doors are made of planks with weatherboards and date from the 19th century. Each door is topped with a projecting stone hood that follows the shape of the doorhead and is supported by stone corbels.

Local climate

Ivy Cottage, Virginia Cottage and Jessamine 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 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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