Alexandra Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1974. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Alexandra Cottage
- WRENN ID
- solitary-quoin-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1974
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Alexandra Cottage, 1 and 2, Pound Street, Lyme Regis, DT7 3HZ
- OS grid reference
- SY 339 921
- Coordinates
- 50.7248, -2.93737
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Alexandra Cottage comprises two early 19th-century, low, two-storey buildings located at Nos 1 and 2 Pound Street. The front of the building is colourwashed rendered, with a hipped tile roof. It has sash windows with glazing bars. The front door to No 1 is situated directly on the street frontage and is a six-panel door with the top two panels fielded and the centre two glazed. The door to No 2 is on the left-hand return and is also a six-panel door with the top two panels glazed, and has a hood supported by shaped brackets above it. Nos 1 and 2 Pound Street contribute to a group of buildings along Pound Street, which includes The Peek Memorial Chapel, Hotel Alexandra, Nos 5 & 6 St Michael's Hotel, the Shamien Hotel, the Stile House Hotel, and associated walling in Stile Lane.
Local climate
Alexandra Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 3 transactions since 2003
- 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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