Laburnum Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Laburnum Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rough-copper-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Laburnum Cottage, Sodom Lane, Marnhull, DT10 1HR
- OS grid reference
- ST 786 191
- Coordinates
- 50.97113, -2.30566
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Laburnum Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located on Sodom Lane in Marnhull. The exterior is constructed of squared, coursed rubble with a tiled, gable-ended roof. A brick stack is present on the left side and partway along the ridge to the right. The cottage has two storeys and originally featured a three-window front, with two and three-light, square-headed, stone mullioned windows containing horizontal glazing bars. Two round stone windows are positioned on the left side, the first-floor window of which is now blocked. A single-storey workshop with a slate roof is attached to the left side of the cottage.
Local climate
Laburnum Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 — 5 transactions since 1996
- 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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