Railway Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. A 17th century Cottage.
Railway Cottage
- WRENN ID
- iron-eave-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- 17th century
- Address
- Railway Cottage, Toller Porcorum
- OS grid reference
- SY 562 978
- Coordinates
- 50.77885, -2.62216
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Railway Cottage is a detached cottage dating from the late 17th century. It features flint and rubble-stone walls and a thatched roof, which has a gable end on the left side and is hipped on the right side. There are brick stacks located at the left gable and at the ridge to the right of the center. The cottage has two storeys and three windows, which are 2- and 3-light casements made of 20th-century metal with lead lights. The front door, positioned at the center, is flush-panelled with two top lights and is also from the 20th century. A wooden porch with a pitched tile roof enhances the entrance.
Inside, the left-hand ground floor room features mid-chamfered ceiling beams. There is an outbuilding at the left end of the cottage, constructed from random chalk block and rubble stone, topped with a clay tile roof. The door of the outbuilding is of the same type as the front door, dating from the 20th century.
Local climate
Railway Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% 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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