Abbey Close Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1950. A C17 Cottage.

Abbey Close Cottage

WRENN ID
white-brick-fern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 November 1950
Type
Cottage
Address
Abbey Close Cottage, Sherborne
OS grid reference
ST 637 164
Coordinates
50.9466, -2.51782
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Abbey Close Cottage is a 17th-century building located on Abbey Close. It is a low, two-storey structure made of stone rubble. The cottage features two gabled half-dormers and a roof covered with stone slates arranged in diminishing courses. The windows are wood casements, with two-light casements above, a three-light casement to the right below, and a four-light casement to the left. The entrance has a half-glazed door. This cottage is part of a group of listed buildings that includes the east end of No 1 Finger Lane.

Local climate

Abbey Close Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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