Piper's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1984. A C17 House. 1 related planning application.
Piper's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-corbel-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Piper's Cottage, Throop Hollow, Affpuddle and Turnerspuddle, DT2 7JD
- OS grid reference
- SY 826 931
- Coordinates
- 50.73747, -2.24653
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Piper's Cottage is a house with an attached barn, dating from the 17th century. It features plastered cob walls and a thatched roof, with a brick stack. The original layout includes a two-room plan with a central cross-passage; the heated room is to the south and the unheated room to the north. A third room to the north is likely a later addition. The building is one storey with an attic.
The front elevation has a ledged door with a glass panel, and the ground floor includes two casement windows with cast iron lights, along with one modern metal casement. In the attic, there are two dormers with casements, one of which has cast iron lights. At the rear, there is a small single-storey lean-to with a tiled roof and a brick buttress on the rear wall. The barn features large double doors in the rear wall and a loft door at a high level in the south gable wall.
Inside, the fireplace in the south room has an oak lintel and jambs, and the ground floor rooms are supported by stop-chamfered oak beams with run-out stops.
Local climate
Piper's Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% 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 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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