The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1986. House. 2 related planning applications.

The Cottage

WRENN ID
forgotten-remnant-swift
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 November 1986
Type
House
Address
The Cottage, Witchampton, BH21 5AU
OS grid reference
ST 995 071
Coordinates
50.86355, -2.00811
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cottage is a detached house originally built in the 18th century and later enlarged to the east around 1858. The original section, which was a small farmhouse, features plastered walls and a tiled roof with a coped gable at the left end. There is a brick stack, partially plastered, at the left end topped with ornamental pots. The house has two storeys and an attic. On the ground floor, there are three pairs of French doors with bordered glazing, which are behind a 20th-century conservatory. The first floor has three sash windows with vertical glazing bars, and there is a lion-head ornament on the eaves gutter.

At the rear, there are attached former outbuildings that have been incorporated into the house. The mid-19th century range at the right end has plastered walls and a tiled roof with bargeboards on the gables, along with brick stacks at the ends and in the center. This section also has two storeys, with three pairs of French doors with bordered glazing on the ground floor and three sashes with bordered glazing and blind boxes on the first floor.

Inside, the original section includes some chamfered ceiling beams, one 18th-century fireplace, and several 18th-century raised panel doors. A room on the first floor in the rear wing features a domed ceiling. In the later wing, there is a cut string stair with a wreathed handrail and slender moulded balusters.

Local climate

The Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 — 6 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
  • 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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