Cockers is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Cockers
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-bastion-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Cockers, 18, Long Street, Cerne Abbas, DT2 7JF
- OS grid reference
- ST 665 011
- Coordinates
- 50.80883, -2.47645
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 18, known as Cockers, is an attached cottage located on the south side of Long Street in Cerne Abbas. It dates from the 17th century, with an 18th-century wing at the rear. The cottage features roughcast walls that are painted white, and the west gable wall is slate-hung. The thatched roof has a gable end to the west and a thatched ridge at the rear. There are late 19th-century brick stacks at the party wall and another ridge stack positioned to the right of center. The building is two storeys high and has three windows with regular spacing, featuring three-light wooden casements with glazing bars from the 20th century. The front door is centrally located and dates from the early 19th century, characterized by flush and recessed panels, panelled reveals, and a moulded architrave supported by open pediments on moulded brackets.
Local climate
Cockers receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 1 application
- 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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