East Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1983. House. 2 related planning applications.

East Cottage

WRENN ID
pitched-pewter-rook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 December 1983
Type
House
Address
East Cottage, 5, Whitcombe Road, Beaminster, DT8 3NE
OS grid reference
ST 482 011
Coordinates
50.80742, -2.73586
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

East Cottage is an attached house located in Beaminster on Whitcombe Road, dating from the early 19th century. The building features lias rubble walls set on a stone plinth and is topped with an asbestos slate roof that has a gable end facing East Street, complete with stone gable coping. There is a brick stack on the gable end that faces the lane.

The facade facing East Street is two storeys high and has three sash windows with glazing bars, framed in moulded wood, and has renewed wooden cills. A 20th-century dormer with a two-light casement and a hipped slate roof is also present. The front door, which is 20th-century, has a reeded surround and a panelled design.

On the side facing Whitcombe Road, the building consists of two sections from the 19th century, also two storeys with attics. This side has three windows on one section and two on the other, along with two dormers. A cast-iron balcony on the first floor, supported by iron posts, is located at the right end. The balcony features a wooden guard-rail and trellis work, topped with a flared pentice roof, and has French windows with marginal glazing that open onto it. This part of the building dates from the mid-19th century.

Local climate

East 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 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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