Newlands Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1996. House. 2 related planning applications.
Newlands Cottage
- WRENN ID
- heavy-barrel-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1996
- Type
- House
- Address
- Newlands Cottage, Wriggle River Lane, Leigh, DT2 7BG
- OS grid reference
- ST 616 052
- Coordinates
- 50.84577, -2.54562
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Newlands Cottage is a house, likely dating to around 1825, or possibly a remodelling of an earlier structure. It is built of stone rubble, with the west gable end rendered. The roof is thatched, with stone coping and corbels to the gable ends. There are two gable-end stacks; the left is ashlar with a cornice, while the right is built of brick.
The house has a three-room plan, with a kitchen on the west side and a parlour on the east, and a central, unheated room containing a straight staircase rising from the parlour. The plan includes front doorways into both the kitchen and the parlour, although the parlour doorway has been blocked.
The south front is asymmetrical, with four windows. It has two-light casements with horizontal glazing bars. The ground floor, right-hand window has been converted into a French casement, and a raking buttress has been built around it. Doorways are positioned to the left and right of the centre, with the right-hand doorway now a window. A large 20th-century conservatory extends from the front of the cottage on the left. The west gable end contains a datestone inscribed "1825". There are only two windows at the rear, along with a 20th-century corrugated sheet steel outbuilding.
The interior features mostly 19th-century joinery, including plank doors. Ground floor rooms have plank ceilings, and the chambers possess cross-beams, with the left-hand beams stop-chamfered. The roof has butt-purlins and is likely early 19th century.
Local climate
Newlands Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1999
- 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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