Cottage and Attached Coach House Immediately West of the Old Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1986. Cottage, coach house.
Cottage and Attached Coach House Immediately West of the Old Rectory
- WRENN ID
- endless-sill-ridge
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 June 1986
- Type
- Cottage, coach house
- Address
- Cottage and Attached Coach House Immediately West of the Old Rectory, Melbury Osmond
- OS grid reference
- ST 574 078
- Coordinates
- 50.8682, -2.60656
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a cottage and attached coach house located immediately west of the Old Rectory in Melbury Osmond. It dates from the early to mid-19th century and features rubble-stone walls. The cottage has a slate roof with gable ends and is two storeys high, with one window that is a 2-light cast-iron casement with glazing bars. There is a door on the end wall. The coach house is one and a half storeys tall, with its south elevation featuring a 20th-century garage entrance, a plank door, a 2-light casement, and another plank door. The cottage likely provided accommodation for the coachman.
Local climate
Cottage and Attached Coach House Immediately West of the Old Rectory receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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