Westwood Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 July 2017. House.

Westwood Cottage

WRENN ID
silver-merlon-spindle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 July 2017
Type
House
Address
Westwood Cottage, Quarr, Gillingham, Buckhorn Weston, SP8 5PA
OS grid reference
ST 765 260
Coordinates
51.03364, -2.33635
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Westwood Cottage is a house built around 1800. It features random stone-rubble walls and a thatched roof. The cottage is a one-and-a-half storey, two-bay structure topped by a half-hipped thatched roof with a brick chimney at the east end. The front elevation has a mid-20th century glazed entrance door on the left and, on the right, a two-light timber-frame window with horizontal glazing bars that serves both the ground and first floors. Additionally, there is a 15-pane metal-frame window in the upper storey at the east end.

Inside, the front door leads into a room that includes a fireplace and a winder staircase located at the east end. This staircase replaces an earlier version, and the fireplace was reopened in the mid-20th century. The ceiling features exposed joists of various dates. A door at the west end connects to an attached lean-to. The first floor has large timber floorboards, and a stepped chimney breast can be seen at the east end. The A-frame roof includes an exposed central truss and a single row of purlins. The later 19th and 20th-century additions to the north, east, and west, as well as the 20th-century glazed porch to the south, are not included in this description.

Local climate

Westwood Cottage receives an average of 830 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 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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