Wilkswood Farm Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1984. Cottage.
Wilkswood Farm Cottages
- WRENN ID
- solemn-porch-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Wilkswood Farm Cottages, 1 and 2, Langton Matravers
- OS grid reference
- SY 995 795
- Coordinates
- 50.61559, -2.00742
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wilkswood Farm Cottages are two former farmhouses that date back to the 17th century and were altered in the 19th century. The cottages feature rubble stone walls with some brick dressings and have a hipped slate roof with brick stacks at both ends and in the center. The buildings are two storeys tall.
On the left end, there is a single-storey projecting lean-to that includes a part-glazed door and a casement window with glazing bars. The main range has a panelled door, and the ground floor is fitted with three casement windows with glazing bars. The first floor has five casement windows with glazing bars, which vary in design.
The left gable wall displays evidence of an earlier, steeper roof pitch and has a small blocked early window. A similar window can be found in the end wall of the lean-to. This property is managed by the National Trust and is recorded as a monument in the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, Dorset Volume II.
Local climate
Wilkswood Farm Cottages 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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