Black Lion Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1973. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Black Lion Cottage

WRENN ID
cold-mortar-heron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 October 1973
Type
Cottage
Address
Black Lion Cottage, Gold Hill, Shaftesbury, SP7 8JW
OS grid reference
ST 862 229
Coordinates
51.00543, -2.19678
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Black Lion Cottage is an 18th-century building, although it may incorporate an earlier core, evidenced by deeds dating back to 1649. The north front is of red brick with some burnt headers, featuring a single window and a porch with a lean-to slate roof, which contains a wooden boarded door. The south front is two storeys and has an attic, with a plain tile roof and two gabled dormers. It has three windows set in reveals and is constructed of stone rubble. An addition is visible at the right-hand end. Inside, a staircase has a fielded panelled dado, and ceiling beams are present.

Local climate

Black Lion Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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