Seaburn and Kookaburra Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1973. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Seaburn and Kookaburra Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sharp-flagstone-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1973
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Seaburn and Kookaburra Cottage, 11 and 13, Hound Street, Sherborne, DT9 3AB
- OS grid reference
- ST 638 166
- Coordinates
- 50.94821, -2.51531
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Seaburn and Kookaburra Cottage, located at 11 and 13 Hound Street, date from the 19th century. These two-storey buildings each have two window bays and feature slate gabled roofs. The front is finished in rough plaster. Both cottages have sash windows, with four panes wide, except for the ground floor windows in No 11, which are three panes wide and include horns. No 11 has a panelled door with upper panels that are glazed, while No 13 has ledged doors set in square-headed frames. The passage door at the right-hand end of No 13 is also in a square frame. Nos 9 to 19 (odd) form a group.
Local climate
Seaburn and Kookaburra 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1997
- 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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