Burlton Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1985. Cottage.
Burlton Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lone-forge-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Burlton Cottage, the Cross, Shillingstone
- OS grid reference
- ST 823 113
- Coordinates
- 50.90091, -2.25198
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Burlton Cottage is a pair of cottages that have been combined into a single house. The north-eastern cottage dates from the 17th century, while the south-western cottage is from the 18th century and has a later extension added in 1955. The earlier cottage features irregularly bonded brickwork with an ashlar landing, while the later cottage is constructed from rubble, brick, and flint. The building has a thatched roof and brick stacks at both ends, with the left stack featuring a large, stepped external chimneybreast. The older cottage is a single storey with an attic, while the later cottage has two storeys. The front has four irregularly spaced windows, with ground floor openings that have segmental brick heads and feature two and three light casements with horizontal glazing bars. There are also 20th-century part-glazed doors. Inside the older cottage, there are remnants of the original roof structure, which may have been of cruck construction.
Local climate
Burlton Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2025
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