Bridge Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 1966. Cottage.
Bridge Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- mired-gallery-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 November 1966
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Bridge Farm Cottage, Melbury Osmond
- OS grid reference
- ST 574 076
- Coordinates
- 50.8669, -2.60549
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bridge Farm Cottage is an attached cottage located in Melbury Osmond, dating from the mid-18th century or earlier, with some alterations from the 19th century. The cottage features rubble-stone walls and a thatched roof, which is gabled at the right-hand end. There are early 20th-century brick stacks at both gable ends. The building is one and a half storeys tall, with four windows, primarily consisting of two-lights, and three lights at the left ground level. The windows have wooden casements with lead lights, dating from the 20th century, while the first floor features iron casements with lead lights. The entrance is located at the rear and consists of a 19th-century plank door, sheltered by a weather-boarded porch. At the south end, there is a thatched outshut with brick walls, which is one storey high and has a plank door. Inside, the left-hand room boasts 16th-century moulded and compartmented ceiling beams.
Local climate
Bridge Farm Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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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