Dormouse Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1984. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Dormouse Cottage

WRENN ID
crumbling-nave-falcon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 July 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
Dormouse Cottage, Bridge Street, Netherbury, DT6 5LS
OS grid reference
SY 470 992
Coordinates
50.79051, -2.75272
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dormouse Cottage is an attached cottage dating from the early 19th century. It features dressed stone walls and a slate roof with stone gable copings. There is a 20th-century brick chimney at the left-hand gable. The cottage is two storeys high and has three windows, which are two-light wooden casements with glazing bars and wooden cills. Stone arch voussoirs are present above the windows.

Local climate

Dormouse Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 6 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 2 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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