Holly Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 April 1990. House.

Holly Cottage

WRENN ID
tired-corridor-mist
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 April 1990
Type
House
Address
Holly Cottage, High Street, Sturminster Marshall
OS grid reference
SY 949 998
Coordinates
50.79852, -2.07316
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Holly Cottage is a house dating from the early 17th century, which was refronted in the 19th century and extended in the 20th century. It features a timber board frame with square panels at the rear infilled with painted brick, while the front is faced in painted brick with Flemish bond on the right and stretcher bond on the left. The cottage has a thatched roof with raised eaves at the front, a hipped roof on the left, and a gabled right end that includes a large brick stack with a brick shaft.

The plan consists of a two-room layout, with the left-hand room being a rebuilding or extension that includes a narrow one-room wing at the back. The exterior is one storey and an attic, with an asymmetrical three-window front. The attic windows are positioned above the wall plate in the raised eaves, and there are 20th-century two-light casements with glazing bars. The doorway is located to the left of centre and features a 20th-century plank door with a thatched porch. A sun fire insurance plaque is located under the eaves on the front. The thatched roof extends over the large brick stack on the right end.

At the rear, there are eyebrow eaves over two half dormers with 20th-century casements, and a central doorway in a chamfered frame with a cranked head. There is a small stone outshut on the left and a 20th-century brick wing on the right with a half-hipped thatched roof and an outshut on the inner left side. The interior has not been inspected.

Local climate

Holly Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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