Wren Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1984. Cottage.
Wren Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rooted-passage-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 August 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Wren Cottage, Church Knowle
- OS grid reference
- SY 928 825
- Coordinates
- 50.64286, -2.10188
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wren Cottage is a detached cottage, likely dating from the 17th century. The walls are constructed from a mix of stone, brick, and plastered cob, with the front wall featuring buttresses. The cottage has a half-hipped thatched roof and a brick chimney located just off center. It is one storey with an attic. An open brick porch with a thatched roof leads to a ledged door. The ground floor includes three casement windows with glazing bars, while the attic has one dormer with similar casements. The main room on the ground floor boasts a large open fireplace with a timber lintel and a bread oven, along with some exposed ceiling beams, suggesting it may have origins as an open hall.
Local climate
Wren Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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