Globe Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1983. Cottage.
Globe Cottage
- WRENN ID
- leaning-pilaster-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Globe Cottage, 5, Bell Street, Swanage
- OS grid reference
- SZ 017 789
- Coordinates
- 50.61012, -1.97652
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Globe Cottage is a late 18th to early 19th century building located on Bell Street. It features Purbeck stone walls and roof, with brick stacks. The cottage is two storeys high and has a double-pile layout with a central valley gutter, positioned at right angles to the street.
On the Bell Street side, there are two large openings with double ledged doors on the ground floor, and above them, two double-hung sash windows with glazing bars on the first floor. The south elevation, which faces down the street, includes a single-storey roofed lean-to addition. This side also has two double-hung sash windows with glazing bars on the first floor and a projecting timber porch that is accessed by an external stair. There is a lean-to addition on the north side, featuring a shuttered window, and a stone boundary wall surrounds the property.
Local climate
Globe 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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