Bay Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 1966. Cottage.
Bay Cottage
- WRENN ID
- knotted-banister-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 November 1966
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Bay Cottage, Stoke Abbott
- OS grid reference
- ST 454 007
- Coordinates
- 50.8039, -2.77561
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bay Cottage is a detached cottage from the 18th century, featuring rubble stone walls and a thatched roof with gable ends. It has 1½ storeys and includes two windows, which are modern 20th-century two-light wooden casements with glazing bars, along with wooden cills and lintels. There is also a three-light casement window on the right side. To the left of the center, there is a studded plank door with a wooden lintel and frame, also from the 20th century. Additionally, there is a pentice-roofed outshut at the right gable end. The cottage has brick stacks at both the left and right gables.
Local climate
Bay 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 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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