The Singing Kettle is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Tea rooms. 1 related planning application.
The Singing Kettle
- WRENN ID
- tired-thatch-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- Tea rooms
- Address
- The Singing Kettle, 7, Long Street, Cerne Abbas, DT2 7JF
- OS grid reference
- ST 664 011
- Coordinates
- 50.80896, -2.47708
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Singing Kettle is an attached former shop, now functioning as tea rooms, dating from the early 19th century, with a possible earlier core. The building features rendered walls that are painted white and has a slate roof with a gable end on the left side. There are brick stacks located at the left gable and the right party wall. The structure is two storeys high and includes dormers.
On the ground floor, there is a shop front with large windows, each divided into three sections. The front is enhanced by recessed pilasters and a moulded wooden cornice above. The central front door is multi-glazed with one top light, while a plank door on the right side is a 20th-century addition. The first floor has three sash windows with thin glazing bars, and there are two dormers featuring 2-light casements with hipped slate roofs.
Local climate
The Singing Kettle receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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