Old Home Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 October 1985. A Late C18 Cottage.
Old Home Cottage
- WRENN ID
- under-rubble-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 October 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Home Cottage, Village Street, Tarrant Gunville
- OS grid reference
- ST 924 129
- Coordinates
- 50.91638, -2.10919
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Home Cottage is a late 18th century cottage located on Village Street in Tarrant Gunville. The building is rendered and whitewashed, topped with a thatched roof featuring end brick stacks. It stands two storeys high with an attic and has a two-window range, consisting of two-light casements with glazing bars. A central thatched porch leads to a plank door, and there is a single storey outshut attached to the cottage.
Local climate
Old Home Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% 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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