Piper's Mill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Piper's Mill Cottage

WRENN ID
sheer-chalk-thyme
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 June 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Piper's Mill Cottage, Fontmell Magna, SP7 0JP
OS grid reference
ST 857 169
Coordinates
50.95217, -2.20373
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Piper's Mill Cottage is a late 18th-century cottage located in Fontmell Magna. It features rubble walls and a thatched roof with a half-hipped left side. There is a tiled outshut on the right and a brick stack on the right side of the building. The cottage has two storeys and a two-window range, with two and three-light casements that include leaded lights. The central entrance consists of a ribbed plank door.

Local climate

Piper's Mill 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 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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