Rock Cottage 12 Metres South of Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 1966. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Rock Cottage 12 Metres South of Barn
- WRENN ID
- winter-footing-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 November 1966
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rock Cottage 12 Metres South of Barn, DT6 3TQ
- OS grid reference
- SY 530 969
- Coordinates
- 50.77061, -2.66714
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rock Cottage is a detached cottage located 12 metres south of the barn, dating from the mid-18th century. It features rubble-stone walls and a thatched roof, which is hipped on the left side and gabled on the right. There is one brick stack at the right gable. The cottage is two storeys high and has two windows, which are two-light wooden casements with glazing bars, complete with wooden lintels and cills. The front door, positioned just to the left of centre, is from the 20th century. To the north, there is a lower one-storey range with an asbestos slate roof, dating from the 19th century, which also has two casement windows.
Local climate
Rock Cottage 12 Metres South of Barn receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% 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 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- 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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