The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1960. House.

The Old Cottage

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 October 1960
Type
House
Address
The Old Cottage, Okeford Fitzpaine
OS grid reference
ST 804 133
Coordinates
50.91944, -2.27905
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Cottage is a 17th-century house located in Okeford Fitzpaine. It features a timber frame with whitewashed, rendered panels and a rubble plinth. The cottage has a thatched roof with half-hipped ends and two brick stacks positioned partway along the ridge. It is one and a half storeys tall with irregular fenestration. The windows include two and three-light wooden casements with glazing bars. There is a rectangular 20th-century bay window on the left and a 20th-century glazed door situated under a tiled porch.

Local climate

The Old Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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