Birds Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1984. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Birds Cottage
- WRENN ID
- low-lime-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Birds Cottage, Ryall Road, Ryall, Whitchurch Canonicorum, DT6 6EG
- OS grid reference
- SY 406 946
- Coordinates
- 50.74873, -2.84322
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Birds Cottage is a single cottage, originally two dwellings, dating to the mid-18th century. The walls are of rubble stone, which have been washed and rendered. It has a slate roof with gable ends. There are two rendered stacks, one in the centre of what was the left-hand cottage and another at the rear eaves. The cottage is one and a half storeys high with four windows, each with wooden casements and glazing bars. The ground floor windows have segmental window heads. A 20th-century front door and porch have been added, and there is a plank wooden door on the left-hand side. One gable end faces the lane and features an attic window. It forms a matching pair with The Shieling.
Local climate
Birds Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% 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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1995
- 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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