Sterndale Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 1966. A Early C17 Cottage.
Sterndale Cottage
- WRENN ID
- weathered-pewter-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 November 1966
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Sterndale Cottage, Melbury Osmond
- OS grid reference
- ST 574 077
- Coordinates
- 50.86775, -2.6065
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sterndale Cottage is a detached cottage located in Melbury Osmond, dating from the early 17th century, with the possibility of an earlier core. The building features rubble-stone walls and quoins, topped with a thatched roof that is hipped on the left side and gabled on the right. There are early 20th-century brick stacks positioned at the center of the ridge and on the right gable, along with a 20th-century stack on the rear eaves. The cottage is 1.5 storeys high and has two windows on the ground floor, which are 3-light wood casements with glazing bars. The first floor contains 2-light cast iron casements, also with glazing bars. A plank door, which is from the 20th century, is located to the right of the center.
Local climate
Sterndale Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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