Sycamore Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1984. Cottage.
Sycamore Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ragged-alcove-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Sycamore Cottage, Melcombe Horsey
- OS grid reference
- ST 762 026
- Coordinates
- 50.82247, -2.3386
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sycamore Cottage is a cottage, likely built in the early 18th century. It features rendered walls and a hipped, thatched roof with a brick stack located to the left of the ridge. The cottage is one and a half storeys high and has approximately three window openings. The windows are casements with glazing bars. There is a part-glazed wooden door on the right side and a second door at the extreme left.
Local climate
Sycamore Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
- No related consent applications matched
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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