Keeper's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1986. A C19 Cottage.

Keeper's Cottage

WRENN ID
lesser-cloister-raven
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 March 1986
Type
Cottage
Address
Keeper's Cottage, Corfe Castle
OS grid reference
SY 972 827
Coordinates
50.64469, -2.04004
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Keeper's Cottage is a detached cottage that was formerly used as a gamekeeper's residence. It dates from the mid-19th century and features rubble stone walls and a stone slate roof with coped gables. The building has a T-shaped plan with a central front gabled projection and stands two storeys high. The entrance is a ledged door located in a gabled timber porch. On the ground floor, there are two casement windows with glazing bars, which are set under hoodmoulds. Additionally, the flank walls of the projection contain two small gothic traceried windows. The first floor has three casement windows with glazing bars. At the rear, there is a lean-to addition that has a catslide roof.

Local climate

Keeper's 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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