Rockley is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 August 1984. Cottage.

Rockley

WRENN ID
slow-buttress-pearl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 August 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Rockley, Church Knowle
OS grid reference
SY 927 825
Coordinates
50.64263, -2.10342
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rockley is an attached cottage, likely dating from the 17th century. It features cob walls that are faced in brick and has a thatched roof that is half-hipped at the west end. There is a brick stack at the end of the building. The cottage is one storey high with an attic. It has a brick porch with a slate-coped gabled roof and a round-arched doorway. On the ground floor, there are two casement windows with a central bar, while the attic contains two half-dormers with similar casement windows. Inside, some ceiling beams are exposed.

Local climate

Rockley 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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