Cottage, Immediately North West of Hitts House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1983. A C17 Cottage.
Cottage, Immediately North West of Hitts House
- WRENN ID
- high-sill-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Cottage, Immediately North West of Hitts House, Whitcombe Road, Beaminster
- OS grid reference
- ST 482 010
- Coordinates
- 50.80698, -2.73593
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a detached cottage located immediately northwest of Hitts House, dating from around the 17th century. It features square lias rubble walls and a slate roof with gable ends. There is a brick stack at the lane gable end. The cottage is one and a half storeys tall and has two windows: one is a four-light stone mullion window with a carved label above it, and the other is a stable window with shutters, a wooden lintel, and a cill. Additionally, there is a plank door in the north gable end wall.
Local climate
Cottage, Immediately North West of Hitts House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% 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 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% 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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