Wissett Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1959. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.

Wissett Cottage

WRENN ID
rough-groin-raven
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 November 1959
Type
Cottage
Address
Wissett Cottage, 53, East Street, Corfe Castle, BH20 5EE
OS grid reference
SY 961 819
Coordinates
50.63722, -2.05544
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wissett Cottage is a late 17th- to early 18th-century cottage at the right end of a terrace, originally known as Conigar. It has rubble stone walls with a roof partly covered in stone slates and partly thatched. A brick stack is located at the right end. The cottage has a T-shaped plan. The front range, which has a stone slate roof, features three casement windows with leaded lights on the ground floor, and two hipped dormers with similar casement windows in the attic. A thatched rear wing contains the entrance, now accessed via a 20th-century porch.

Local climate

Wissett Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 9 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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