Keeper's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1961. Cottage.

Keeper's Cottage

WRENN ID
spare-buttress-claret
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 July 1961
Type
Cottage
Address
Keeper's Cottage, Compton Park, Nether Compton
OS grid reference
ST 597 168
Coordinates
50.94984, -2.57434
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Keeper's Cottage is a detached cottage from the mid-19th century. It features dressed stone walls, a moulded cornice, and a crenellated parapet. The roof is hipped and covered with clay tiles, with stone stacks at each end of the ridge. The building has two and a half storeys, with south-facing windows that include two-light windows with Y-tracery in a pointed head. Each window has single glass panes and one small iron casement. There are three gabled half-dormers; the outer ones are blind and have the same tracery design, while the central half-dormer is glazed. Tall finials with crosses adorn the corners of the parapets and the gabled dormers. The cottage has three doors located on the left, centre, and right. The left door is a plank-and-muntin door with strap-hinges from the 19th century, while the centre and right doors are 20th-century two-leaf doors with glazing bars, featuring the Y-tracery motif in their heads.

Local climate

Keeper's Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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