Elizabeth Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1984. Cottage.

Elizabeth Cottage

WRENN ID
under-gateway-grove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 October 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Elizabeth Cottage, 7, Main Road, West Lulworth
OS grid reference
SY 827 807
Coordinates
50.6266, -2.24477
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Elizabeth Cottage is a cottage with origins dating back to the 17th century. The walls are constructed from a mix of stone, brick, and plaster, topped with a thatched roof and featuring a brick chimney stack. The cottage is one storey with an attic and was originally designed with a simple two-room layout. There is a single-storey brick extension on the east side, which has a tiled roof.

The elevation facing the road includes one horizontally sliding sash window and one casement window on the ground floor, both of which have glazing bars and shutters. The west wall, made of 17th-century brick, displays two terra cotta plaques depicting Queen Anne Boleyn and her emblem, a falcon. The rear wall features a ledged door set within a thatched porch. On the ground floor, there is another horizontally sliding sash window with glazing bars. The attic includes a half-dormer with horizontally sliding sashes that also have glazing bars.

Inside, the main ground floor room boasts a large open fireplace with a timber lintel, which has been restored. The cottage retains remnants of a jointed cruck roof.

Local climate

Elizabeth Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% 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 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% 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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