Tess Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1951. Cottage.
Tess Cottage
- WRENN ID
- buried-pilaster-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1951
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Tess Cottage, West Hill, Evershot
- OS grid reference
- ST 572 044
- Coordinates
- 50.83839, -2.60886
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tess Cottage is a detached cottage, originally three separate dwellings, dating from the early 18th century or earlier, with some 19th-century changes to the windows. The cottage features coursed rubble-stone walls and a chalk-block gable end. Its roof is thatched, with a half-hipped design on the left side and gabled on the right side. There are 20th-century red brick chimney stacks located on both gables. The cottage has one and a half storeys and includes a total of five windows on the ground floor. The windows are mainly two-light iron casements with lead lights, set in wooden frames with pegged wood lintels, along with a two-light cast-iron casement featuring glazing bars and wooden lintels. The front door, located at the center, is a plank door with two top lights and dates from the 19th century.
Local climate
Tess 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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