(Morden Park Cottages) Shooting Box is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1984. Cottage.
(Morden Park Cottages) Shooting Box
- WRENN ID
- little-courtyard-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- (Morden Park Cottages) Shooting Box, 109
- OS grid reference
- SY 910 931
- Coordinates
- 50.73772, -2.12876
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Morden Park Cottages, known as the Shooting Box, is a detached cottage built in the late 18th century, with later enlargements in the 19th and 20th centuries. The original section is square in plan and features brick walls, with the front wall plastered and a dentil cornice at the eaves. It has a pyramidal hipped tiled roof with stone eaves courses and stands two storeys tall. Each floor has a Venetian window with double-hung sashes and glazing bars. At the east end, there is a single-storey brick extension with a tiled roof and a brick end stack. At the west end, a weather-boarded lean-to extension is present, which includes an attached conservatory.
Local climate
(Morden Park Cottages) Shooting Box receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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