The Tea Clipper is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
The Tea Clipper
- WRENN ID
- winding-rubblework-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1955
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Tea Clipper, 53a, Milton Abbas, Blandford Forum, DT11 0BP
- OS grid reference
- ST 805 017
- Coordinates
- 50.81497, -2.27779
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tea Clipper is a detached cottage, built around 1780, which was partly used as a teashop at the time of listing. It features plastered cob walls and a hipped thatched roof with brick end stacks. The building stands two storeys tall and has a part-glazed door. On the ground floor, there are two canted bay windows with casements that include glazing bars. The first floor has three casements fitted with lead lights. At the rear, there is a single-storey wing made of cob and thatch, which is of slightly later construction and has one casement with lead lights. This wing is attached to a former stable range made of brick and flint, topped with a pantiled roof, part of which has been converted into a kitchen.
Local climate
The Tea Clipper 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 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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