Leda Cottage Sound O Water is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Semi-detached houses. 3 related planning applications.

Leda Cottage Sound O Water

WRENN ID
forbidden-rafter-azure
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1956
Type
Semi-detached houses
Address
Leda Cottage Sound O Water, 16, Duck Street, Cerne Abbas, DT2 7LA
OS grid reference
ST 664 012
Coordinates
50.80939, -2.4779
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Leda Cottage and Sound O' Water are two semi-detached houses that were built as one in the mid-19th century. Sound O' Water is now a guest house. The houses feature stone walls that are rendered and painted white, with corner pilasters. They have slate roofs with gable ends and boxed eaves, with the left-hand addition being lower. There are brick stacks located at the left-hand gable, the ridge centre, and the right-hand gable. The buildings are two storeys high and have a total of five windows. The left-hand side has one bay, while the right side features two wooden casement windows with glazing bars and wood cills. There is a canted bay window with glazing bars at the ground level of Sound O' Water (no. 16), which is a 20th-century addition. The front doors include a flush-panelled door at the centre of no. 16, with two top lights and a semi-circular fanlight with glazing bars from the 19th century. No. 14 has a recess-panelled door with two lights, a 20th-century feature, and a 19th-century fanlight with glazing bars above.

Local climate

Leda Cottage Sound O Water 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 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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