Knowle Cottage, and Attached Walls and Gate Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1983. A C19 Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Knowle Cottage, and Attached Walls and Gate Piers
- WRENN ID
- stranded-cloister-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Knowle Cottage, and Attached Walls and Gate Piers, Shorts Lane, Beaminster, DT8 3BD
- OS grid reference
- ST 478 012
- Coordinates
- 50.80872, -2.7421
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Knowle Cottage, built in the mid-19th century, features stone walls that are rendered and washed, with a slate roof and gable ends. The cottage has two storeys and two windows, which are three-light casements with glazing bars and old glass. The front door is centrally located, made of wood, and is flush-panelled with two lights, dating from the 19th century.
To the right of the cottage are the attached gate-piers, also from the 19th century. These consist of two square stone gate-piers, each with tall fielded panels on every face and hollowed cornices. They are topped with squared ball finials on cavetto spurs. Curving stone walls extend from each gate-pier for 15 feet on either side. The listing does not include the 19th-century house of the same name located at the rear.
Local climate
Knowle Cottage, and Attached Walls and Gate Piers 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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