Meadow Cottage Priory Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Attached cottages.
Meadow Cottage Priory Cottage
- WRENN ID
- guardian-cobble-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- Attached cottages
- Address
- Meadow Cottage Priory Cottage, 11, West Hill, Charminster
- OS grid reference
- SY 678 926
- Coordinates
- 50.73239, -2.45716
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Meadow Cottage and Priory Cottage are two attached cottages that were originally one farmhouse. They date from the late 16th century, with alterations made in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries affecting the windows and walls. The exterior features knapped flint and banded stone walls, with brickwork that raises the eaves. The cottages have a thatched roof with gable ends. There are 20th-century brick stacks located at the east end gable, at the ridge center, and at the right party wall with West Hill Cottage. Priory Cottage is 1½ storeys high and has three windows, while Meadow Cottage is two storeys with two windows.
For Priory Cottage, the fenestration includes a three-light 19th-century wood casement window, a door, and a four-light stone mullion window with iron casements and fixed lead lights, topped with a label. The upper floor has three eyebrow dormers and two 2-light 20th-century metal casements, along with one four-light wood casement. Meadow Cottage features a four-light stone mullion window with iron casements and lead lights above its door, which has a label over it. The first floor has a mix of three-light and four-light 20th-century wood casements. The front doors include a plank door with strap hinges and a glass light for Priory Cottage, while Meadow Cottage has a left-side plank door with a wood lintel above.
Inside, the cottages have been significantly altered. Meadow Cottage has a large hall with a small early 19th-century dog-leg staircase featuring a Roman Doric newel. The right-hand room, which was originally larger before being subdivided by the hall, has a fireplace with brick jambs and a segmental brick head, along with mid chamfered ceiling beams.
Local climate
Meadow Cottage Priory Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% 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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