Hartley Cottage Hermitage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Hartley Cottage Hermitage

WRENN ID
second-finial-willow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1956
Type
Cottage
Address
Hartley Cottage Hermitage, Hartley Street, Minterne Magna, DT2 7BB
OS grid reference
ST 646 066
Coordinates
50.85784, -2.50345
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Hartley Cottage Hermitage is a 17th-century cottage with an 18th-century extension, located on Hartley Street in Minterne Magna. The building features rubble walls and thatched, gable-ended roofs, with end and near end stacks made of rubble and ashlar. It has a T-plan layout and is one and a half storeys tall, with a range of four windows. The two left-hand windows are stone mullioned, although the central mullions are missing. The cottage has two-light casements with glazing bars, and the ground floor right windows have wooden lintels. Hipped dormers are present, and the doorway is adorned with a chamfered four-centred stone head and continuous jambs.

Local climate

Hartley Cottage Hermitage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 — 3 transactions since 2007
  • 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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