Gore Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1984. Cottage.
Gore Cottage
- WRENN ID
- iron-hearth-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Gore Cottage, Powerstock
- OS grid reference
- SY 497 963
- Coordinates
- 50.76415, -2.71401
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gore Cottage is a detached cottage located in a meadow, dating from the late 18th century. It features rubble-stone walls and a thatched roof with stone gable copings and level kneelers. There are brick stacks at both gable ends. The cottage has two storeys and three windows, which are two-light wooden casements with glazing bars, along with wooden cills and lintels. The central entrance has a plank door from the 20th century, and there is a wooden weatherboarded porch with a thatch canopy above. Additionally, there is a pentice-roofed outhouse on the south gable end, which has a slate roof and a plank door.
Local climate
Gore Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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