Peaceful Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Peaceful Cottage
- WRENN ID
- solemn-turret-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1955
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Peaceful Cottage, Winterborne Houghton, DT11 0PE
- OS grid reference
- ST 818 044
- Coordinates
- 50.83904, -2.25861
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Peaceful Cottage is a late 18th or early 19th century cottage, with the right-hand bay possibly added later. The exterior is rendered and whitewashed, topped with a thatched roof that is half-hipped on the right. Brick end stacks are present. The cottage has two storeys and a three-window front. The windows are 2-light casements, some with glazing bars and others with leaded lights. A thatched porch with a plank door is located in the centre of the original part of the cottage.
Local climate
Peaceful 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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