Chestnut Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1986. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Chestnut Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stony-outpost-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Chestnut Cottage, Pentridge, Salisbury, Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge, SP5 5QX
- OS grid reference
- SU 034 177
- Coordinates
- 50.95947, -1.9528
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chestnut Cottage is a 17th-century cottage with later alterations located in Pentridge Village. The building features a timber frame with rendered infill, while the end wall is made of banded brick and flint. It has a tiled roof with a brick stack on the right side. The cottage is one and a half storeys tall and has two windows, which include two and three-light casements with leaded lights. The entrance is marked by a central part-glazed plank door. At the rear, there are remains of the original timber frame outshut, and the eaves have been raised.
Inside, notable features include an open fireplace with a chamfered bressummer dated 1730, various stop-chamfered ceiling beams, medieval window glass, and 17th-century panelling that has been brought from elsewhere. The interior also contains some early doors and doorways, along with original timber-framed partitions.
Local climate
Chestnut 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 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 2 transactions since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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