Lilac Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 June 1985. Cottage.

Lilac Cottage

WRENN ID
vacant-rafter-pigeon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 June 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Lilac Cottage, Blandford Road, Shillingstone, DT11 0SF
OS grid reference
ST 827 108
Coordinates
50.89669, -2.24595
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lilac Cottage is an early 18th-century cottage located on Blandford Road in Shillingstone. It is constructed from whitewashed rubble and features a thatched roof, which is hipped on the left side and gabled on the right. The cottage has a brick stack at one end and stands two storeys tall with a two-window range. The windows are 20th-century casements with diamond-pane leaded lights, and there is a central plank door.

Local climate

Lilac Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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