Keeper's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1987. Cottage.
Keeper's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- crooked-corbel-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Keeper's Cottage, Athelhampton and Puddletown
- OS grid reference
- SY 731 935
- Coordinates
- 50.7411, -2.38221
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Keeper's Cottage is a detached cottage that was formerly used as a gamekeeper's residence, dated 1843 as noted on the pump. The building features brick walls, with part of the front wall plastered, and has a tiled roof adorned with bargeboards and a brick dentil cornice at the eaves. It has a central brick stack that has been rebuilt, featuring two diagonally set shafts and oversail caps. The cottage has an L-shaped plan and consists of one storey and an attic.
On the front elevation, there is a projecting gabled wing at the left end, which is plastered. This wing includes a canted bay window on the ground floor, characterized by stone mullions and cast iron lattice glazing. In the attic, there is a two-light stone mullioned window beneath a hoodmould, also with similar glazing. To the right of the gable, there is a lean-to porch that is gabled in the centre and supported by concrete posts. The porch features a battened door set in a four-centred stone arched opening. At the rear, there is a single-storey lean-to with a slate roof. Inside this structure is a lead pump, dated 1843, which displays a relief figure of a man and the initials "El."
Local climate
Keeper's Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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