Flax Mill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1983. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Flax Mill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-fireplace-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Flax Mill Cottage, 3, Shorts Lane, Beaminster, DT8 3BD
- OS grid reference
- ST 477 012
- Coordinates
- 50.80869, -2.7432
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Flax Mill Cottage is an attached cottage dating from the early 19th century. It features lias rubble walls and a concrete tile roof, with stone gable copings at both the left and right ends. There is one brick chimney stack on the left gable, while the right-hand stack is blocked off. The cottage has two storeys and attics, with three windows that are three-light wooden casements with glazing bars, along with wooden cills and lintels. An attic casement window is located in the gable end. The front door, positioned to the right of centre, is a wooden, six-panelled design with a wooden lintel above, dating from the 20th century.
Local climate
Flax Mill Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 — 2 transactions since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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