Holly Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1976. Cottage.
Holly Cottage
- WRENN ID
- solemn-rood-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Bournemouth East MP: Tom Hayes (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1976
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Holly Cottage, 20, Throop and Holdenhurst
- OS grid reference
- SZ 128 952
- Coordinates
- 50.75641, -1.81903
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Holly Cottage is a 2-storey cottage, likely built in the late 18th century. It features cob walls and a thatched roof, with a layout that is two windows wide and a central door. The south gable is made of painted brick, and there are small brick chimneys on the gable ends. The cottage has a gabled porch hood supported by timber brackets, with added trellis extending down to the ground. Shallow plaster hoods are present over the ground floor windows, and the garden porch is glazed, featuring a pierced bargeboard.
Local climate
Holly Cottage receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% 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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