St Francis Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 1983. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
St Francis Cottage
- WRENN ID
- knotted-parapet-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 April 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- St Francis Cottage, Thorncombe, TA20 4QA
- OS grid reference
- ST 381 036
- Coordinates
- 50.82883, -2.87896
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Francis Cottage is a 18th-century cottage located in Thorncombe. It features rubble walls with some brick quoins and a thatched roof, along with a 20th-century brick stack. The building is 1½ storeys tall and has a three-window range with wooden casements that have original lintels and replaced wood cills. The entrance includes a plank door with a thatched hood, supported by a 20th-century wood frame. A rubble and brick buttress is present on the front wall. Inside, there is a deep-chamfered ceiling beam and an open fireplace with a high wooden lintel.
Local climate
St Francis Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2001
- 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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