Church House Cottage and Attached Iron Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 1966. Cottage.
Church House Cottage and Attached Iron Railings
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 November 1966
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Church House Cottage and Attached Iron Railings, Stoke Abbott
- OS grid reference
- ST 452 007
- Coordinates
- 50.80341, -2.77764
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church House Cottage is an attached cottage dating from the 18th century. It features dressed stone walls and a thatched roof with gable ends, along with brick stacks at both the left and right gables. The cottage has two storeys and three windows, which are two-light wooden casements with glazing bars and wooden cills. The right-hand ground window has 20th-century lead lights. The front door, located at the center, is a plank door with a porthole light and dates from the 19th century. The cottage is complemented by attached iron railings with foliated finials on the front sleeper wall, along with a front gate that has finials and beaded mullions, supported by renewed stone gate-posts.
Local climate
Church House Cottage and Attached Iron Railings 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 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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