Keepers Piece is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1983. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Keepers Piece
- WRENN ID
- eternal-gargoyle-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Keepers Piece, Pretty Box Lane, Chedington, DT8 3HX
- OS grid reference
- ST 490 064
- Coordinates
- 50.85569, -2.72533
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Keeper's Piece is an early 19th century detached cottage, originally the Keeper's Cottage. The building is constructed of random rubble-stone walls with brick quoins and window dressings. It has a thatched roof, hipped at both ends, and a brick stack at the centre with three flues. The cottage is two storeys high with two windows, each fitted with 3-light cast-iron casements in wooden frames. The iron glazing-bars are of a vertical and horizontal type with lozenge intersections, and include tension bars. The front door, positioned centrally, is a plank door with strap-hinges, dating from the 19th century, set within a wooden frame and brick jambs and head. Inside the left-hand room are flagstone floors. A doorcase-stair is located on the back wall and window-seats are present.
Local climate
Keepers Piece receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 2 transactions since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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