Colescote is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1956. House.
Colescote
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1956
- Type
- House
- Address
- Colescote, Piddletrenthide
- OS grid reference
- SY 708 989
- Coordinates
- 50.78963, -2.41562
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Colescote is a house dating from the 16th century, with a porch that is dated 1692. The building features rendered, colourwashed walls and a half-hipped, thatched roof. It has brick stacks on the left side and at the rear eaves. The house is two storeys high with an attic and has approximately six windows. The windows are 20th-century two-light casements with glazing bars. The porch is also two storeys tall. The property has been extensively modernised.
Local climate
Colescote 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 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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