Penny Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1959. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Penny Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 November 1959
Type
Cottage
Address
Penny Cottage, 34, East Street, Corfe Castle
OS grid reference
SY 961 819
Coordinates
50.63753, -2.05607
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Penny Cottage is a pair of cottages that may have originally been one house, dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century. They are built with rubble stone walls and feature thatched roofs, with a brick stack at the left end and a central stone stack. The cottages are one storey high with attics.

No. 34 has a part-glazed ledged door. The ground floor includes one horizontally sliding sash window with glazing bars and shutters, positioned under a flat stone arch. In the attic, there are two dormers: one with casements and the other with horizontally sliding sashes, both featuring glazing bars.

No. 36 has a ledged door in an altered opening. Its ground floor has one casement window and one horizontally sliding sash window, both with glazing bars and located under flat stone arches. The attic has one dormer with horizontally sliding sashes that also have glazing bars.

Local climate

Penny 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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