Bottle Knap Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Bottle Knap Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-belfry-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Bottle Knap Cottage, Long Bredy and Kingston Russell, DT2 9HT
- OS grid reference
- SY 569 903
- Coordinates
- 50.71099, -2.61107
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bottle Knap Cottage is a detached cottage dating from the mid-17th century. It features rubble stone and chalk block walls, topped with a thatch roof that is half-hipped on the left side and gabled on the right. There are 18th-century brick stacks located at the ridge, to the right of center, and at the right gable. The cottage has two storeys and three windows, which are 2-light wooden casements with glazing bars from the 19th century. The two upper windows have fixed lead lights and wooden lintels above them.
There are two doorways towards the left end of the building; one is a plank door with a wooden frame that leads into a former dairy, while the other, located to the right of center, is a flush-panelled door with six top lights and a wooden frame, also from the 19th century. At the right end of the cottage, there is an attached apple-store made of rubble stone, featuring a pentice roof of corrugated iron and a plank door made of wide planks.
Inside, there is a well in the former dairy. The ceiling beam has a straight chamfer with a filleted stop, and there is a fireplace with a cambered wooden lintel to the left side. To the right gable, there is a 19th-century fireplace with a cast-iron framing.
Local climate
Bottle Knap Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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