The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 October 1983. Cottage.

The Cottage

WRENN ID
stark-bronze-stoat
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 October 1983
Type
Cottage
Address
The Cottage, Station Road, Stalbridge
OS grid reference
ST 736 179
Coordinates
50.96002, -2.37703
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cottage is a pair of cottages that have been combined into one, dating from the 17th century. It features stone rubble walls topped with a 20th-century tile roof and has a central stone stack with brick capping. The building is two storeys tall and has five window ranges. On the upper floor of the left cottage, there are two wooden casements with glazing bars. The ground floor has a door with two lights. The right-hand cottage includes a three-light wooden mullion window with an ovolo moulding and leaded lights on the upper floor, while the other windows are 20th-century wooden casements.

Local climate

The Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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