Scarfell Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1983. Cottage.
Scarfell Cottage
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Scarfell Cottage, 8 and 10, Mount Scar, Swanage, BH19 2EZ
- OS grid reference
- SZ 027 784
- Coordinates
- 50.60614, -1.96306
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Scarfell Cottage, located at Nos 8 and 10 on Mount Scar, is likely from the late 18th century to early 19th century. The cottage features walls made of Purbeck stone and a slate roof, with brick chimney stacks. It is two storeys high. On the ground floor, there is an entrance door flanked by two double-hung sash windows that have glazing bars. The first floor has three similar sash windows. The end gables are topped with parapets and stone copings.
Local climate
Scarfell Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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 2016
- No related consent applications matched
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