Lilac Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 December 1983. A C17 Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Lilac Cottage
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-moulding-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 December 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Lilac Cottage, Corscombe, DT2 0NU
- OS grid reference
- ST 518 054
- Coordinates
- 50.84619, -2.68458
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lilac Cottage is a detached cottage dating from the 17th century, with a roof structure from the 19th century. The cottage features rubble-stone walls and a slate roof with gable ends. There are brick stacks at both the left and right gables. The building is two storeys high and has two windows on the front. The ground floor windows are three-light stone mullions with ovolos and separate labels above. The first floor has three-light wooden casements. The front door, located at the center, is a plank door from the 20th century.
Local climate
Lilac 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 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 — 5 transactions since 2004
- 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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