West Hill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1986. Toll-house.
West Hill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- first-newel-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 June 1986
- Type
- Toll-house
- Address
- West Hill Cottage, North Wootton
- OS grid reference
- ST 642 145
- Coordinates
- 50.92927, -2.50971
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Hill Cottage is a detached toll-house built in the later 19th century. It features dressed stone walls with ashlar Ham stone quoins and slate roofs that have stone gable copings, moulded kneelers, and apex blocks. The building has coupled square stone stacks with moulded cornices located on the main ridge and the north-east wall.
The plan is a rectangular block with projecting bays, set diagonally to the side walls, and it stands two storeys high. The fenestration is irregular, consisting of hollow-chamfered stone mullions with cast-iron casements that have a hexagonal pattern of glazing bars. There are canted bays on the ground floor flanking the original front doorway, featuring three lights at the front and one light on the canted side. Above the canted bays are two-light windows, and there is a four-light window above the door.
The front doorway originally had hollow-chamfered jambs and a four-centred head with a large label above. It features a plank-and-muntin door with a fitting four-centred head from the 19th century. The 20th-century extensions to the south are not considered of special interest.
Local climate
West Hill Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% 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 64% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
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