1 and 2 Wayside Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 1966. Cottages. 3 related planning applications.

1 and 2 Wayside Cottages

WRENN ID
former-pavement-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 November 1966
Type
Cottages
Address
1 and 2 Wayside Cottages, Stoke Abbott, DT8 3JP
OS grid reference
ST 452 007
Coordinates
50.80375, -2.77786
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Two attached cottages, dating from approximately the 18th century. Number 1 has dressed stone walls constructed of large blocks. It has a thatched roof with a hip at the left-hand side, and combined brick stacks at the right-hand gable, likely dating from the 19th century. The cottage is two storeys high, with two windows on the front. The ground floor window is a 3-light fixed window with leaded lights, set within stone arch-voussoirs. Upstairs, there is a 2-light casement window, with one iron casement and leaded glass. A front door is located on the left-hand side, consisting of a plank door with strap hinges and a 19th-century wooden lintel above. Number 2 cottage has rubble-stone walls and a Roman-tile roof with a gable end. It is also two storeys high, with two windows. These windows are 3-light wooden casements with horizontal glazing bars, retaining old hinges, and feature wooden lintels and cills. A front door, approximately in the centre, is a plank door with a 19th-century wooden lintel above.

Local climate

1 and 2 Wayside Cottages receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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