Castle Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1972. A C17 Cottage.
Castle Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sheer-granite-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1972
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Castle Cottage, Bournemouth Road, Spetisbury
- OS grid reference
- ST 916 020
- Coordinates
- 50.81819, -2.12059
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Castle Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located on Bournemouth Road in Spetisbury. It is constructed of brick, with some areas rendered and whitewashed. The cottage features a thatched roof with brick stacks at each end and has a gable facing the road. It is one and a half stories tall and has a three-window range. The windows include eyebrow dormers with casements that have leaded lights. The central entrance consists of a part-glazed plank door. Inside, notable features include a stop-chamfered beam in the ground floor room and a fireplace with a chamfered bressummer.
Local climate
Castle 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 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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