Olive Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1983. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Olive Cottage
- WRENN ID
- worn-beam-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Olive Cottage, 4, Marshall Row, Swanage, BH19 2PL
- OS grid reference
- SZ 032 786
- Coordinates
- 50.60749, -1.95565
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Olive Cottage is a traditional 18th-century Purbeck cottage located on Marshall Row. It is constructed of Purbeck stone walls and a Purbeck stone roof, with a rendered wall adjoining Marshall Row. The cottage is two storeys high, featuring double-hung sash windows on the ground floor and casement windows on the first floor. A flush panelled door provides access. The cottage is recorded in the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments as Monument 35.
Local climate
Olive Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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 — 1 transaction since 2008
- 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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