Swiss Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1986. Cottage.
Swiss Cottage
- WRENN ID
- second-brick-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 June 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Swiss Cottage, 5, the Common, Evershot
- OS grid reference
- ST 576 047
- Coordinates
- 50.84044, -2.60337
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Swiss Cottage is an estate cottage built in the mid-19th century. It features coursed rubble-stone walls and slate roofs with boxed eaves and ornamental barge-boards. A white brick stack is located on the north ridge. The building has an L-plan layout, with a projecting square bay gabled on the west elevation and a porch entrance on the north gable wall. It stands two storeys high and has three windows on the west elevation, which have straight-chamfered stone mullions and cast-iron casements set in a lozenge pattern. The windows include a three-light arrangement on the ground floor and a two-light arrangement above, both with returned labels. The porch at the north end has a gabled slate roof with bargeboards, stone-moulded jambs for the door, and a rib-panel door with two top lights, dating from the 19th century.
Local climate
Swiss Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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