Turnpike Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1975. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Turnpike Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silent-truss-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1975
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Turnpike Cottage, High Street, Thorncombe, TA20 4PH
- OS grid reference
- ST 372 029
- Coordinates
- 50.82243, -2.89236
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Turnpike Cottage is an 18th-century cottage, significantly rebuilt in the 20th century. It is constructed of rubble walls, with a stone slate roof and stone gable coping. A 20th-century brick stack is located at the gable end. The cottage has one storey and an attic, with a window in the gable. It has a three-window front, featuring renewed cills and renewed wooden casement windows. The interior includes collar-beam trusses and shallow-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. A remaining plank partition, an 18th-century brick fireplace, and tie beams are also present.
Local climate
Turnpike 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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