Riverside Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1985. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Riverside Cottage
- WRENN ID
- proud-pillar-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Riverside Cottage, the Street, Winterborne Zelston, DT11 9EU
- OS grid reference
- SY 896 974
- Coordinates
- 50.77647, -2.14759
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Riverside Cottage is a detached cottage dating from the early to mid-19th century. It features plastered cob walls with brick dressings and a half-hipped thatched roof. The cottage has two storeys, with a 19th-century gabled timber porch that includes ornamental bargeboard, a corrugated roof, and a part-glazed door. On the ground floor, there are two casement windows with cast iron lights, while the first floor also has two similar windows. To the right, there is a single-storey flat-roofed 20th-century extension that includes garage doors and two 20th-century windows.
Local climate
Riverside Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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