The Cobbles is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Cobbles
- WRENN ID
- strange-oriel-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 June 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cobbles, Blandford Road, Shillingstone, DT11 0SF
- OS grid reference
- ST 827 108
- Coordinates
- 50.89707, -2.24682
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cobbles is a late 17th-century house with additions from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, situated on Blandford Road, Shillingstone. The house comprises two ranges; the older range is to the left. The construction materials vary, featuring brick, brick and flint, and render, topped with a thatched roof to the earlier range and a slate roof to the later. Brick stacks are positioned at the ends and intersections of the ranges. The house has two storeys and displays four irregular window openings. The older part of the house has casement windows with horizontal glazing bars, set beneath segmental heads on the ground floor. The later part features sash windows with vertical glazing bars and a central porch with a panelled door. Internal features documented by the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments include a ceiling of intersecting chamfered beams and chamfered wall-plates, with one beam ending on a chamfered post featuring splayed stops.
Local climate
The Cobbles receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 13 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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