Rambler Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1984. A C18 Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Rambler Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stark-fireplace-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rambler Cottage, Melcombe Horsey, DT2 7PE
- OS grid reference
- ST 762 026
- Coordinates
- 50.82253, -2.33845
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rambler Cottage is a cottage, likely dating from the early 18th century. It has rendered walls and a thatched roof, with a hip on the left side and a gable on the right. The cottage is one and a half storeys high and has an irregular arrangement of windows. The windows are 19th-century 2-light casements with no glazing bars in the lower sashes, and a 3-light casement with horizontal glazing bars in the upper sash. A 20th-century porch with a glazed door has been added. There’s a 20th-century extension to the right, and a 20th-century brick buttress facing the road.
Local climate
Rambler Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 1 transaction since 2014
- 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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