Treetops Cottage and Wintersweet Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 October 1986. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Treetops Cottage and Wintersweet Cottage
- WRENN ID
- inner-hearth-sunrise
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 October 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Treetops Cottage and Wintersweet Cottage, Church Lane, Osmington
- OS grid reference
- SY 724 832
- Coordinates
- 50.64822, -2.39157
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Two semi-detached cottages, Treetops Cottage and Wintersweet Cottage, date from the 18th and 19th centuries, with later alterations. The cottages have rubble stone walls. Treetops Cottage has a thatched roof, while Wintersweet Cottage has a slate roof. Brick stacks are located at the gable ends of the thatched roof. Each cottage has two storeys with two windows each. Treetops Cottage features 2-light wood casement windows with glazing bars, and cambered brick arches above the ground-floor windows. A 20th-century single-pane window is located on the left side of the ground floor. The front door, located centrally, is panelled and glazed and dates to the 20th century. Wintersweet Cottage has 3-light and 2-light wood casement windows with wooden sills. An 18th-century plank door is situated on the right, set within a wooden frame.
Local climate
Treetops Cottage and Wintersweet Cottage receives an average of 840 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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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 — 6 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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