April Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1959. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
April Cottage
- WRENN ID
- grey-floor-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1959
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- April Cottage, 14, High Street, Winfrith Newburgh, DT2 8JW
- OS grid reference
- SY 806 845
- Coordinates
- 50.66018, -2.27502
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
April Cottage and the adjoining property at No. 15 form a pair of cottages dating to the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The walls are plastered, and the roofs are thatched, with brick stacks. The cottages are two storeys high. No. 14 has a later single-storey addition to the north, constructed with plastered walls and a thatched roof. This addition features a part-glazed entrance door and two casement windows with glazing bars. The main portion of No. 14 has two casement windows on the ground floor and two horizontally sliding sash windows with glazing bars on the first floor. Inside, the main ground floor room contains a large open fireplace with a timber lintel. No. 15 has a ledged door and two horizontally sliding sash windows with glazing bars on both the ground and first floors.
Local climate
April 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.
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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