Spring Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1985. House.
Spring Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rough-loggia-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Spring Cottage, Melbury Abbas
- OS grid reference
- ST 882 203
- Coordinates
- 50.98225, -2.16915
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Spring Cottage is a house built in the early to mid 19th century. It is constructed of ashlar stone and features a hipped slate roof with a brick stack located at the rear of the ridge. The building has a symmetrical design, standing two storeys tall with a three-window range. The windows are 12-pane sashes, and there is a panelled door that has a moulded surround. Above the door, there is a moulded flat hood supported by iron brackets.
Local climate
Spring Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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