Magna Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1985. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Magna Cottage
- WRENN ID
- first-pediment-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Magna Cottage, Kington Magna, SP8 5EQ
- OS grid reference
- ST 764 232
- Coordinates
- 51.00835, -2.33718
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Magna Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 18th century to early 19th century. It features whitewashed rubble walls and a thatched roof that is half-hipped on the left and gabled on the right. The building is symmetrical, standing two storeys tall with a two-window range. The windows are two-light casements with horizontal glazing bars, except for the ground floor right window, which has full glazing bars. The entrance is a central part-glazed plank door. There is a single-storey extension added in the 20th century on the left side.
Local climate
Magna Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1995
- 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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