Shedrick Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 1983. Cottage.
Shedrick Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lost-span-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 April 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Shedrick Cottage, Thorncombe
- OS grid reference
- ST 378 050
- Coordinates
- 50.84118, -2.88397
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shedrick Cottage is a 18th-century cottage located on Shedrick Hill in Thorncombe. It features rubble walls with stone quoins and a thatched roof, which has a renewed brick stack. The cottage is two storeys high and has a two-window range, with brick dressings and gauged brick arches. The wooden casements and frames, as well as the cills, have been renewed. The entrance includes a plank door with three lights and a brick porch that has a pitched slate roof, added in the 20th century. The roof is hipped at the west end and gabled at the east end.
Local climate
Shedrick Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% 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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