The Homestead is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1986. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
The Homestead
- WRENN ID
- scarred-screen-poplar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Homestead, Corfe Castle, BH20 5JP
- OS grid reference
- SY 982 838
- Coordinates
- 50.65436, -2.02642
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Homestead is a detached cottage, formerly two cottages, likely built in the late 18th century. It features plastered cob walls and a thatched roof, with one central brick chimney stack and another at the right end. The building is one storey with an attic and has a large plastered buttress on the front wall. There are two ledged doors, one located within a 20th-century timber porch. The ground floor includes four casement windows with glazing bars, while the attic has two dormers with similar casements and a small casement under the eaves. A lean-to addition is present at the left end, covered with a corrugated sheet roof. Inside, there are traces of two large fireplaces, which have been partially built up.
Local climate
The Homestead receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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