Dorset Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Babergh local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1978. House.
Dorset Cottage
- WRENN ID
- patient-truss-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Babergh
- Constituency
- South Suffolk MP: James Cartlidge (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dorset Cottage, the Green West, Long Melford
- OS grid reference
- TL 865 464
- Coordinates
- 52.08459, 0.72064
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dorset Cottage is an 18th-century timber-framed and plastered house located on The Green in Long Melford. It stands two storeys high and features a five-window range with double-hung sashes that have single vertical glazing bars. The entrance is marked by a doorway with a cornice hood. The roof is covered with old tiles and has a parapet.
Local climate
Dorset Cottage sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- No related consent applications matched
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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