Langbury Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1982. Cottage.
Langbury Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ghost-bonework-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Langbury Cottage, Piccadilly Lane, Shapwick
- OS grid reference
- ST 943 015
- Coordinates
- 50.81366, -2.08161
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Langbury Cottage is a building with origins in the 17th century, which has been altered in the 18th century and later. It features plastered walls and a thatched roof, along with brick stacks. The cottage is one storey high with attics. There is a plastered porch that has a gabled tiled roof and a pair of ledged doors. On the ground floor, there are three casement windows with glazing bars. The attic includes two half-dormers, each with similar casements.
Local climate
Langbury Cottage 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 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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