Wheatsheaf Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 1983. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Wheatsheaf Cottage
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-panel-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 April 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Wheatsheaf Cottage, Thorncombe, TA20 4NL
- OS grid reference
- ST 343 025
- Coordinates
- 50.81876, -2.93394
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wheatsheaf Cottage is a detached cottage dating from the 18th century. It features rubble walls with stone quoins and a thatched roof, with one brick stack at each end. The building is 1½ storeys high and has a four-window range with dormers. The windows are 20th-century wooden casements with glazing bars, and there are wooden lintels and cills. A plank door leads to a stone porch added in the 1970s, which has a half-hipped thatch roof. The main roof is also half-hipped. Inside, there are two fireplaces with brick jambs and chamfered wooden lintels, as well as one bread oven with a brick interior. The cottage may have jointed cruck construction with collar-beams.
Local climate
Wheatsheaf Cottage 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 — 2 transactions since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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