Magna Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 May 1994. Cottage.
Magna Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-mullion-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 May 1994
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Magna Cottage, Green Lane, Ashmore
- OS grid reference
- ST 916 165
- Coordinates
- 50.94808, -2.11974
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Magna Cottage is a pair of attached cottages and an outbuilding that have been converted into a single house. It dates from the 18th century and was extended in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed from flint and random stone rubble with brick dressings, and the rear is partly rendered. It features a wheat-reed thatched roof with gabled ends and has brick stacks at the axial and gable ends.
The original part of the cottage, which has a one-room plan, is located at the left (southwest) end. The central section, also with a one-room plan, was likely added in the 19th century, possibly as a separate cottage, while the right end appears to be a later 19th-century outbuilding extension. There is a small single-storey outhouse at the right end and a single-storey extension added to the back in the 20th century.
The exterior is two storeys high and has an asymmetrical three-window front facing southeast. The first floor features three 19th-century two-light casements, while the ground floor has one three-light casement and two 20th-century two-light casements. There is a plank door on the left and a 20th-century glazed door to the right of centre, all set in brick openings with cambered brick arches. The later 19th-century outbuilding at the right end has storey-posts with straight braces and a weatherboarded gable end.
Inside, the left room has a chamfered cross-beam and a large fireplace with a cambered timber lintel. The centre room features an unchamfered cross-beam and a fireplace with a cambered timber lintel, which includes an oven.
Local climate
Magna Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% 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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