Half Acre is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Half Acre
- WRENN ID
- brooding-railing-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Half Acre, Back Street, East Stour, SP8 5JY
- OS grid reference
- ST 803 234
- Coordinates
- 51.0102, -2.28113
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Half Acre is a 17th-century cottage located on Back Street in East Stour. It features whitewashed rubble walls and a gable-ended thatched roof, with a brick stack on the right side. The building is single storey with an attic and has a single two-light casement window with glazing bars facing the road. There is a door located in the outshut to the right. Inside, some chamfered beams can be found.
Local climate
Half Acre receives an average of 830 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 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 6 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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