1, Dorchester Road is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. A C19 Cottage.
1, Dorchester Road
- WRENN ID
- strange-stone-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 1, Dorchester Road, Stratton
- OS grid reference
- SY 655 935
- Coordinates
- 50.74091, -2.48924
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 1 Dorchester Road is a small roadside cottage dating from the 19th century or earlier. It features cob walls that are rendered and a thatched roof that is hipped at both ends. There is a brick stack located in the southeast corner of the cottage. The front of the building is one storey high, while the rear rises to one and a half storeys. The front window consists of a two-light wooden casement with glazing bars. At the rear, there is a two-light eyebrow dormer window. The entrance is located on the right-hand side and consists of a 19th-century plank door that leads into a hall-corridor. Attached to the cottage is an outbuilding made from the same materials, which is single storey and features a stable-type door along with a casement window with glazing bars beside it.
Local climate
1, Dorchester Road receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% 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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