St Nicholas Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1984. A C17 Cottage. 6 related planning applications.
St Nicholas Cottage
- WRENN ID
- buried-gable-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- St Nicholas Cottage, Chaldon Herring, DT2 8DN
- OS grid reference
- SY 791 832
- Coordinates
- 50.64875, -2.29692
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Nicholas Cottage is likely a 17th-century cottage. It is constructed of brick and stone, with a thatched roof and brick stacks. The cottage is two storeys high. A modern stable-type door is set within a thatched, rustic porch. On the ground floor are three horizontally sliding sash windows with glazing bars. The first floor has two casement windows, also with glazing bars. The interior features chamfered ceiling beams and one open fireplace with a bread oven. A stone front boundary wall is topped with brick. At the rear is a detached, single-storey outbuilding with stone walls and a tiled roof, including a horizontally sliding sash window with glazing bars.
Local climate
St Nicholas Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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