78, East Street 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.
78, East Street
- WRENN ID
- lunar-vestry-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1959
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 78, East Street, Corfe Castle, BH20 5EQ
- OS grid reference
- SY 962 818
- Coordinates
- 50.63589, -2.05481
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 17th-century cottage located within a terrace on the west side of East Street, Corfe Castle. The cottage has rubble stone walls and a stone slate roof, with a brick stack positioned at the rear of the ridge on the left end. It is a one-storey building with an attic. A recessed porch with a segmental arch leads to a part-glazed door. The ground floor features a casement window with glazing bars, also set beneath a segmental arch. The attic contains a pent-roofed dormer with casements that match the ground floor window.
Local climate
78, East Street 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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