Old Rectory Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. Detached cottage.
Old Rectory Cottage
- WRENN ID
- roaming-dormer-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1985
- Type
- Detached cottage
- Address
- Old Rectory Cottage, Chilfrome
- OS grid reference
- SY 589 988
- Coordinates
- 50.78753, -2.58361
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Rectory Cottage is a detached cottage dating from the 18th century. It features rubble-stone and chalk block walls, topped with a slate roof that has gable ends. There is a brick stack on the left-hand gable. The cottage is two storeys high and has three windows: four-light casements on the ground floor and three-light casements above, all with cast-iron casements that include lead lights and wooden frames. The windows have wooden cills and are supported by iron tension-bars, with segmental brick arches above them. The front door, located centrally on the ground floor, is flush-panelled with rib-panelled detailing above, framed with moulded wood from the 19th century. Additionally, there are two sleeper buttresses on the south end wall.
Local climate
Old Rectory Cottage 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 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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