Maypole Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1960. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Maypole Cottage
- WRENN ID
- outer-beam-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1960
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Maypole Cottage, the Cross, Shillingstone, DT11 0SP
- OS grid reference
- ST 824 113
- Coordinates
- 50.90115, -2.25079
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Maypole Cottage is a late 18th-century cottage located on the east side of The Cross in Shillingstone. The building is constructed of whitewashed rubble and features a thatched roof that is half-hipped to the right. There is a brick stack on the left side. The cottage has been extended later on both sides and at the rear. It stands two storeys tall and has a two-window range, with two and three-light casements that include glazing bars. The entrance door is situated in the later extension.
Local climate
Maypole Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 2021
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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