Thatched Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1984. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.

Thatched Cottage

WRENN ID
kindled-latch-bistre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Thatched Cottage, Axminster Road, Charmouth, DT6 6PA
OS grid reference
SY 360 937
Coordinates
50.73965, -2.90795
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Thatched Cottage is an attached cottage dating from around 1800. It has stone walls that are rendered and a thatched roof with gable ends, featuring a steep pitch. The building is two storeys high with attics. There are two windows with wooden sashes and glazing bars, along with a dormer window that has a 20th-century wooden frame. The front door is located up steps on the left side and is a 20th-century studded plank door set within a round-arch door surround.

Local climate

Thatched Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 10 transactions since 1996
  • 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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