Leeson Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 June 1952. A 17th century Cottage.
Leeson Cottage
- WRENN ID
- guardian-slate-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 June 1952
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- 17th century
- Address
- Leeson Cottage, 32, Bell Street, Swanage
- OS grid reference
- SZ 017 788
- Coordinates
- 50.60963, -1.97666
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Leeson Cottage is a pair of traditional Purbeck cottages, likely originating from the 17th century. They feature Purbeck Stone walls and roofs and are two storeys high with attics. No 32 has a central ledged door with glazed panels, two casement windows on the ground floor, and one casement window on the first floor. There is a dormer in the attic with a hipped roof and a casement window. No 34 has a modern glazed door and two modern casement windows on both the ground and first floors, with one first-floor window extended to create a part-dormer. There is also a dormer in the attic with a hipped roof and a casement window.
Local climate
Leeson 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1998
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