St Marys Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 October 1973. Cottage.
St Marys Cottage
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-chapel-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 October 1973
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- St Marys Cottage, 30, Bimport, Shaftesbury
- OS grid reference
- ST 859 228
- Coordinates
- 51.00472, -2.2019
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Mary's Cottage is a building dating from 1615, located on the south-east side of Bimport. Originally two dwellings, it is now a two-storey structure with three windows. The exterior is made of colour-washed stone rubble. It features modern two-light casement windows with small panes, and the window at the west end is set lower than the others. There is a large stone lintel above the doorway, which has a modern rustic style door. The roof is tiled.
Local climate
St Marys Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 1999
- No related consent applications matched
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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