Moretons Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Moretons Cottage
- WRENN ID
- broken-granite-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Moretons Cottage, Winterborne Whitechurch, DT11 0NZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 838 017
- Coordinates
- 50.81509, -2.23123
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Moretons Cottage is a cottage dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century. It is constructed of banded brick and flint, topped with a thatched roof that is hipped to the right. There is a brick stack located slightly along the ridge at the right end. The cottage has one and a half storeys and features a three-window range. The ground floor openings are set under segmental brick heads, with casement windows; some of these have horizontal glazing bars, while others feature leaded lights. There is a near central part-glazed door. The upper floor at the right-hand end has been rebuilt.
Local climate
Moretons Cottage 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 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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