St Francis Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 October 1986. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

St Francis Cottage

WRENN ID
scattered-dormer-nettle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
8 October 1986
Type
Cottage
Address
St Francis Cottage, Mill Lane, Yetminster, DT9 6ND
OS grid reference
ST 595 104
Coordinates
50.89227, -2.57714
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Saint Francis Cottage is a detached cottage dating from the 18th century. It features rubble stone walls, with the front and rear walls plastered. The roof is half-hipped and thatched, with brick stacks at each end. The cottage has two storeys. The entrance includes a ledged door with a glass panel set in a 20th-century glazed porch. On the ground floor, there are two casement windows with horizontal glazing bars, while the first floor has two casement windows with lead lights. At the left end, there is a projecting outbuilding wing that is single-storeyed, made of colourwashed rubble stone, and topped with a tiled roof. Inside, the main ground floor room boasts a four-centred arched stone fireplace. The ground floor rooms also feature 18th-century raised panelling and doors, and there is a simple plank and muntin partition on the first floor.

Local climate

St Francis Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 2005
  • 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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