Fern Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Fern Cottage
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-cloister-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1955
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Fern Cottage, 25, Milton Abbas, Blandford Forum, DT11 0BL
- OS grid reference
- ST 806 018
- Coordinates
- 50.81594, -2.27541
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fern Cottage is a detached cottage dating from around 1780. It features plastered cob walls and a hipped thatched roof with brick end stacks. The cottage has two storeys. The ground floor includes a part-glazed door and two cross-pattern windows with lead lights. On the first floor, there are three casement windows, also with lead lights. To the right of the cottage, there is an outbuilding connected to the house by a light timber structure. This outbuilding has colourwashed brick walls, a tiled roof, and a brick end stack, along with one casement window featuring lead lights.
Local climate
Fern Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% 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 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 1 transaction since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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