Many Sparrows, The Old Post Office, Undosa and Little Thatch is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 August 1952. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.

Many Sparrows, The Old Post Office, Undosa and Little Thatch

WRENN ID
swift-hearth-summer
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 August 1952
Type
Cottage
Address
Many Sparrows, The Old Post Office, Undosa and Little Thatch, Walditch, Bridport, DT6 4LD
OS grid reference
SY 482 926
Coordinates
50.7312, -2.73469
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Many Sparrows, The Old Post Office, Undosa, and Little Thatch are four cottages built around the 17th century, with the eaves raised in the 18th century. They feature rubble-stone walls and a thatch roof with stone gable-coping on the left side. There are 20th-century brick stacks at both the left and right gables. The cottages are two storeys high, with outshuts at each end. They have five windows, which are two- and three-light wooden casements with glazing bars in their original openings, along with wooden cills and lintels.

The front doors include: Many Sparrows, which has a 20th-century door with a glass light leading into the outshut at the left end; The Old Post Office, featuring a 20th-century door with one glass light at the centre left; Undosa, which has a plank door with two glass lights and a wooden lintel above it at the centre right; and Little Thatch, which has a 20th-century plank door with an ornamental leaded glass light leading into a rubble-stone extension at the right end.

Local climate

Many Sparrows, The Old Post Office, Undosa and Little Thatch 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 — 3 transactions since 2019
  • 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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