3, Hewood Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
3, Hewood Cottages
- WRENN ID
- solemn-hammer-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 3, Hewood Cottages, Thorncombe
- OS grid reference
- ST 357 030
- Coordinates
- 50.82352, -2.91325
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hewood Cottages, No 3, is an 18th-century cottage constructed with rubble and cob walls, topped with a thatch roof and featuring brick stacks. The building stands two storeys high and has three wooden casement windows. There is a 20th-century porch made of breeze blocks with a tiled pentice roof. This cottage is included for its group value with other nearby structures.
Local climate
3, Hewood Cottages receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 1 transaction since 2006
- No related consent applications matched
- 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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