Acorn Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Acorn Cottage
- WRENN ID
- twisted-ember-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Acorn Cottage, Village Pond, Ashmore, SP5 5AQ
- OS grid reference
- ST 913 177
- Coordinates
- 50.95943, -2.12479
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Acorn Cottage is a mid 19th-century cottage constructed from banded flint and brick, featuring brick quoins. It has a gabled slate roof with a brick stack on the right side. The building is two storeys high and has a two-window range. The upper floor and the right side of the ground floor have 2-light casements with glazing bars. The ground floor right window has a brick soldier course, while the left side has a wooden lintel, and the upper floor windows have segmental brick heads. There is a gabled porch that is part-glazed, with a part-glazed door. Both the dormers and the porch are adorned with moulded barge boards. The cottage is included for its group value.
Local climate
Acorn Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 6 transactions since 1995
- 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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