Combe Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Combe Cottage
- WRENN ID
- north-pediment-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 June 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Combe Cottage, Sandford Orcas, DT9 4RP
- OS grid reference
- ST 627 203
- Coordinates
- 50.98101, -2.5323
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Combe Cottage is a detached cottage dating from the mid-17th century, located in Sandford Orcas. It features rubble-stone walls and has a front projecting stair-well next to the front door. The cottage is topped with a thatch roof that has gable ends and stone gable copings, along with ovolo-moulded kneelers. There are brick stacks at the gable ends, with the right gable stack being from the 20th century. The building is two storeys high and has three windows, which are 2-light and 3-light wooden casements from the 20th century, complete with glazing bars and lozenge-leaded lights in the top right window. The front door is a plank door with strap hinges, dating from the 18th century. The rear casements also feature lozenge-leaded lights with opaque quarries. Inside, there are open fireplaces in both end walls, with dressed stone jambs and cambered wooden lintels that have stepped stops. The ceiling beams are adorned with straight chamfers and stepped stops, and the floors are made of flagstones.
Local climate
Combe Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 1 transaction since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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