Beech Cottage and Garden Gate is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1973. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Beech Cottage and Garden Gate
- WRENN ID
- second-baluster-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1973
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Beech Cottage and Garden Gate, Oborne Road, Sherborne, DT9 3RX
- OS grid reference
- ST 645 169
- Coordinates
- 50.95065, -2.50593
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beech Cottage and garden gate, located on Oborne Road, dates from around the late 18th century to early 19th century. The building consists of two parallel ranges made of stone rubble, with the front range likely dating from the earlier period and the rear range being later. It features a slate roof and a colourwashed cement rendered entrance front that is positioned at right angles to the road. The roof is covered with plain tiles.
The cottage has two windows on the upper floor, one at each end, and on the ground floor, there are two windows and a door to the left. The windows are sash style with intact glazing bars. The doorway is topped with a recent hood supported by shaped brackets and features a six-panelled door, with the top two panels being glazed and ledged reveals. The gable end facing the road has a three-light leaded attic casement above.
In front of the path leading to the main entrance, there is a wrought iron gate that has arrow-shaped finials on the lower rails and a curvilinear pattern above, with spear-headed finials on the topmost horizontal rail.
Beech Cottage and its garden gate, along with the north-west boundary wall to Beech Cottage, Castle Farmhouse, the boundary wall to the south-west of Castle Farmhouse, and several other outbuildings and walls in the vicinity, form a group with the outhouses to Castle Farm and the enclosing wall on the north-east side of Oborne Road.
Local climate
Beech Cottage and Garden Gate receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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