Morecombelake Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Morecombelake Cottage
- WRENN ID
- winding-chalk-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Morecombelake Cottage, Stanton St. Gabriel, DT6 6DY
- OS grid reference
- SY 399 940
- Coordinates
- 50.74315, -2.85197
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This mid-18th century cottage is located in Morecombelake, near Whitchurch Canonicorum. It is a single-story building with a half-hipped thatched roof, rendered stacks at the left-hand side and eaves, and rubble walls that have been washed. The cottage has three windows with three-light wooden casements and leaded lights set within wooden cills. A plank front door is fitted with strap hinges and sheltered by a thatched canopy supported by two posts. A 20th-century extension is located at the left-hand end of the cottage. It is documented in "RCHM Dorset I" on page 264.
Local climate
Morecombelake Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- 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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