Rectory Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1983. House. 4 related planning applications.
Rectory Cottage
- WRENN ID
- steep-spandrel-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rectory Cottage, Higher Street, Okeford Fitzpaine, DT11 0RQ
- OS grid reference
- ST 805 108
- Coordinates
- 50.89677, -2.27733
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rectory Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with later alterations. It features rendered walls and a hipped thatched roof, along with brick stacks located at the center and the left end of the building. The cottage is one and a half storeys tall and has irregular fenestration, including 20th-century two-light casements with leaded lights.
Local climate
Rectory Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 2017
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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