Cove Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Cove Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silver-baluster-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Cove Cottage, 38, Main Road, West Lulworth, BH20 5RQ
- OS grid reference
- SY 823 800
- Coordinates
- 50.6198, -2.25144
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cove Cottage is an 18th-century cottage designed in the "Cottage Ornè" style. It features plastered walls, a thatched roof, and brick stacks. The building is one storey with attics. On the ground floor, there is a pair of doors and a single door, both of which are part glazed. The cottage has three casement windows that include diagonal glazing bars. In the attic, there are three half-dormers under Gothic arches, which also have tracery and diagonal glazing bars, contributing to its picturesque appearance.
Local climate
Cove Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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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