Old Post Cottage and Laurel Cottage. is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Old Post Cottage and Laurel Cottage.
- WRENN ID
- solitary-rubble-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1955
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Post Cottage and Laurel Cottage., Tarrant Monkton, DT11 8RX
- OS grid reference
- ST 944 088
- Coordinates
- 50.87939, -2.08017
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Post Cottage and Laurel Cottage are a pair of semi-detached cottages dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century. They are rendered and whitewashed, with some brickwork, and feature thatched roofs with end brick stacks. The cottages are one and a half storeys tall and have a three-window range. The windows are 19th-century two-light cast-iron casements with glazing bars. Old Post Cottage has a part-glazed plank door, while Laurel Cottage has a plain plank door. Both cottages have thatched porches. Inside, each cottage has a stop-chamfered beam in the living room.
Local climate
Old Post Cottage and Laurel Cottage. receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
- 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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