The Old Cottage and Garden Boundary Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1960. Cottage.
The Old Cottage and Garden Boundary Wall
- WRENN ID
- muffled-bonework-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1960
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Cottage and Garden Boundary Wall, Gold Street, Stalbridge
- OS grid reference
- ST 732 179
- Coordinates
- 50.96034, -2.38191
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is an 18th-century building located on Gold Street in Stalbridge. It features coursed rubble stone walls and a thatched roof, with a stone stack at one end. The cottage is two storeys high and has two window ranges, along with a later single-storey addition on the left side. On the right side, the ground floor includes a possibly later rectangular bay window with leaded lights, covered with stone slates. The upper floor has two and three-light leaded-light windows. The addition to the left has a blocked doorway. The front garden is bordered by vertically set stone flags.
Local climate
The Old Cottage and Garden Boundary Wall receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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