Hill Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1985. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Hill Lodge
- WRENN ID
- narrow-chimney-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Hill Lodge, Blandford Road, Milton Abbas, DT11 0AZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 810 021
- Coordinates
- 50.81887, -2.27065
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hill Lodge is a detached cottage that was formerly a lodge to the park, built in the mid-19th century. The walls are constructed of flint with brick banding, featuring ornamental tile-hanging in the gables. The roof is tiled and includes bands of fish-scale tiling, ornamental bargeboards, and gable finials. There is one brick chimney stack on the ridge and another at the rear, both with oversailing caps adorned with dentil ornament. The building has an L-shaped plan and is designed in the cottage ornee style, with a single storey.
On the front elevation, there is a tiled verandah supported by timber posts, leading to a part-glazed door beneath it. There is also one casement window with diamond lead lights. At the right end, a projecting gabled wing features a slightly projecting bay window with casements that have lead lights. The left end wall includes a brick canted bay window with a dentil cornice and hipped roof, along with casements that also have lead lights. A 20th-century rear extension has been added, constructed to match the original style. The overall appearance of the cottage is picturesque.
Local climate
Hill Lodge 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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