Digby Estate, The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1973. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Digby Estate, The Cottage

WRENN ID
leaning-chalk-primrose
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 October 1973
Type
Cottage
Address
Digby Estate, The Cottage, 85, Back Lane, Sherborne, DT9 3JE
OS grid reference
ST 636 168
Coordinates
50.94993, -2.51949
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cottage, part of the Digby Estate, dates to 1625, with a substantially altered 19th-century facade. It is a two-storey, two-bay building. The roof is gabled with stone coping on the right-hand side. The front is of stone rubble. There are two two-light casement windows in the upper storey. The ground floor has a three-light casement window to the right, featuring a modern stone voussoir, and a segmental-headed doorway with a glazed panel above it to the left. The Cottage is part of a group that includes Digby Estate Nos 85 to 88, Keld, and Homestead.

Local climate

Digby Estate, The Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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