Willoughby Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Attached house. 1 related planning application.
Willoughby Cottage
- WRENN ID
- bitter-oriel-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- Attached house
- Address
- Willoughby Cottage, 12, Mill Street, Athelhampton and Puddletown, DT2 8SH
- OS grid reference
- SY 757 944
- Coordinates
- 50.74871, -2.34493
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willoughby Cottage is an attached house, probably from the 18th century, though parts may be older. It features brick walls and a thatched roof, with one brick stack near the center and another shared stack at the right end. The building consists of two parallel ranges: one facing the street and one set back, connected by a link that contains the staircase. The rear range has one storey and an attic, while the front range has two storeys. The right end of the front range is a later addition.
The front entrance has a six-panel door beneath a hipped metal canopy supported by metal brackets. The left section of the ground floor includes two tripartite sash windows with glazing bars, while the first floor has two sash windows with glazing bars and wide architraves. The right section features a two-storey canted bay window with sash windows that have glazing bars and moulded cornices on each floor, along with mock half-timbering between the floors.
The rear range may be older, also with one storey and an attic, and includes some leaded light windows. Inside this range, there is a large open fireplace with a timber lintel and a bread oven, along with some exposed ceiling beams. The staircase has a fretwork balustrade.
Local climate
Willoughby Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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 2015
- 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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