The Cottage and Front Area Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1984. Hotel.

The Cottage and Front Area Railings

WRENN ID
rough-spire-furze
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 1984
Type
Hotel
Address
The Cottage and Front Area Railings, the Street, Charmouth
OS grid reference
SY 363 936
Coordinates
50.73875, -2.90324
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cottage, now a hotel, is a single house dating from the 17th century. It features rendered walls and a thatched roof with gable ends and decorative block-ridging. There are three rendered stacks: one at the left gable, one backing onto the cross-passage, and one at the right gable. The building has two storeys and three windows. The ground floor includes a canted bay window with a hipped thatch roof above, featuring 19th-century sash windows. There is a 20th-century French window on the right side. The first floor has wooden sliding-sash windows with thin glazing bars. The front door, located to the left of centre, is wooden with two glass panels and dates from the 20th century. The east elevation is slate-hung and has a double-pointed window.

In front of the house, there are cast iron railings along the street, which have broken-off heads and tall urns at the main bay divisions, all set on a sleeper wall.

Local climate

The Cottage and Front Area Railings receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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