The Bricks is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1984. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

The Bricks

WRENN ID
cold-pavement-thrush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 July 1984
Type
Cottage
Address
The Bricks, Drimpton Road, Broadwindsor, DT8 3QL
OS grid reference
ST 437 026
Coordinates
50.82069, -2.80019
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Bricks is an attached cottage that was originally a farmhouse, dating from around 1600, with 19th and 20th-century alterations. It features rubble stone walls and a slate roof with stone gable-coping at the center. There are two brick stacks located at the left-hand party wall and the right-hand gable. The cottage is two storeys high and has four windows, including one three-light stone mullion window on the right side of the ground floor, which is hollow-chamfered. The other windows are 20th-century two-light wooden casements with glazing bars and stone cills. The front door, which is made of planks, is positioned to the left of center, and there is a thatch-roofed porch with a pentice.

Inside, there are three open fireplaces with stone jambs and wooden lintels, one of which has filleted stops. A stone spiral staircase is located to the left of the fireplace at the left end of the cottage. There are five ceiling beams with very large chamfers and filleted stops. Upstairs, there are two early 17th-century fireplaces. The interior also includes remnants of a plank-and-muntin partition on the ground floor and a stud partition on the upper floor.

Local climate

The Bricks receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
  • 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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