Virginia Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1983. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Virginia Cottage
- WRENN ID
- eternal-casement-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Virginia Cottage, 60, Bell Street, Swanage
- OS grid reference
- SZ 017 787
- Coordinates
- 50.60814, -1.97628
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Virginia Cottage is likely an 18th-century building. It has walls and a roof made of Purbeck stone, with brick stacks. The cottage is two storeys high with attics. The ground floor has a modern door and three double-hung sash windows. The first floor has four double-hung sash windows. Two dormers with hipped roofs and casement windows light the attic. A modern stone garage has been built on the south side, and a lean-to addition exists on the north side. A Purbeck stone boundary wall fronts the street. The building is documented as RCHM Monument 60.
Local climate
Virginia Cottage 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 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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 — 3 transactions since 1997
- 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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