The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 1976. House.

The Cottage

WRENN ID
strange-lead-hawk
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 April 1976
Type
House
Address
The Cottage, Pound Lane, Wareham Town
OS grid reference
SY 921 872
Coordinates
50.6848, -2.11308
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cottage is an early 19th-century building located on the south side of Pound Lane. It features a chequer brick front that has been colourwashed, and it has a hipped slate roof with rendered stacks. The building is two storeys high and has two flush-framed sash windows with glazing bars in moulded cases on the first floor, and one sash window on the ground floor, which is fitted with shutters. The entrance door consists of six fielded panels set within a moulded frame, topped by a gabled hood supported on brackets.

Local climate

The 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 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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