Ashford Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1952. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Ashford Cottages
- WRENN ID
- proud-iron-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 August 1952
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Ashford Cottages, 1 and 2, Main Street, Chideock, DT6 6JQ
- OS grid reference
- SY 424 927
- Coordinates
- 50.73181, -2.81657
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ashford Cottages are two attached cottages built in the late 18th century. They feature coursed lias stone rubble walls and a thatched roof with gable ends. There are three brick stacks: one on the left gable, one on the right gable, and one on the party wall. The cottages are two storeys tall and have five windows, which are wooden casements with two and three lights. Voussoirs are present over the windows. The front door of No 1 is centrally located, wood panelled with two top lights, and the reveals are also panelled, dating from the 18th century. The front door of No 2 is on the left, made of wood from the 20th century with two glass panels in the top half. There is an outshut at the rear.
Local climate
Ashford Cottages receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% 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 — 6 transactions since 1997
- 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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