Christmas Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1960. Cottage.
Christmas Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tenth-brick-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1960
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Christmas Cottage, West Street, Fontmell Magna, Shaftesbury, SP7 0PF
- OS grid reference
- ST 865 168
- Coordinates
- 50.95122, -2.19236
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Christmas Cottage is a cottage dating from the 15th century, with alterations made in the 17th, 18th, and 20th centuries. It features a timber frame and rubble construction, topped with a half-hipped thatched roof. There is a brick stack located to the right of the center. The cottage is a single storey with an attic and has a range of four windows. The 20th-century windows include two- and three-light casements with glazing bars. There are glazed doors in the end bay to the right and the second bay to the left, while the main front door is located in a 20th-century outshut on the left. A single dormer window is present in the roof.
Internally, the house was originally composed of three bays supported by two cruck trusses, which feature cambered collars; the eastern truss retains arch braces. The eastern bay of the original house has a floor dating to around 1600, which rests on stop-chamfered beams.
Local climate
Christmas Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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