Lobster 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.

Lobster Cottage

WRENN ID
winding-zinc-honey
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 November 1959
Type
Cottage
Address
Lobster Cottage, Worth Matravers, BH19 3LQ
OS grid reference
SY 972 774
Coordinates
50.59649, -2.04002
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lobster Cottage is a detached cottage that was formerly two cottages, originating from the 17th century but significantly reconstructed in the 20th century. It features rubble stone walls, a stone slate roof, and stone stacks, with an L-shaped plan. The building is part two storeys and part one storey with an attic. A projecting wing at the left end has a half-hipped roof. There is an added porch with a half-hipped roof, which includes a 20th-century oak door and a stone mullioned window with casements and glazing bars. In the gable wall, there is one casement window with glazing bars on each floor. The main range to the right has a lean-to extension at the right end, with a part-glazed stable door. The ground floor has two casement windows with glazing bars, while the first floor has one similar window. The attic features one pent-roofed dormer with casements. At the rear, there is a large 20th-century glazed extension.

Local climate

Lobster 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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