Barton Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Barton Cottages
- WRENN ID
- distant-steel-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Barton Cottages, 1 and 2, Main Road, Winterborne St. Martin, DT2 9JZ
- OS grid reference
- SY 645 889
- Coordinates
- 50.69872, -2.50348
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barton Cottages are two attached cottages dating from the late 18th century. They feature coursed rubblestone walls and a thatched roof with gable ends and stone copings. Brick stacks are located at the gable ends. The cottages are two storeys high and have two windows on the ground floor, which are 2 light wood casements with glazing bars. Above, there are 3 light casements that were added in the 20th century. The front doors are different for each cottage: No. 1 has a panelled and glazed door from the 19th century, while No. 2 has a fully glazed door from the 20th century.
Local climate
Barton Cottages receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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 — 4 transactions since 1997
- 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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