May Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1984. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
May Cottage
- WRENN ID
- odd-niche-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- May Cottage, Old Church Road, Bridport, DT6 4BP
- OS grid reference
- SY 473 917
- Coordinates
- 50.72322, -2.74714
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
May Cottage is a detached cottage built in the early 19th century. It features rubble-stone walls with stone quoins and has a thatched roof with rendered stacks at each gable. The cottage is two storeys high and has two windows, which are 2-light wooden casements with glazing bars from the 19th century, including some old glass. The front door is centrally located, panelled with two top lights and has a segmental stone doorhead. The windows are set beneath segmental stone arch-voussoirs.
Local climate
May Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% 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 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 5 transactions since 2001
- 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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