Giddy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1984. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Giddy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tall-ledge-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Giddy Cottage, Burton Lane, Wool, BH20 6EX
- OS grid reference
- SY 831 865
- Coordinates
- 50.67876, -2.23943
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Giddy Cottage is a late 18th to early 19th century cottage located on Wool Burton Lane in Giddy Green. The building features walls that are part brick and part plastered, topped with a thatched roof and a brick chimney. The main block is oriented at right angles to the road and consists of one storey with attics. There is a late attached single-storey wing at the rear, along with a modern single-storey extension on the west side that has an asbestos roof. The end elevation facing the road includes a modern thatched bay window, while the main elevation features a modern glazed porch. The ground floor has four casement windows with glazing bars, and the attic contains three half-dormers with horizontally sliding sashes that also have glazing bars. The rear wing has a pair of half-glazed doors and one casement window with glazing bars.
Local climate
Giddy Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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