Starlings is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1983. A Medieval Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Starlings
- WRENN ID
- leaning-chimney-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Starlings, Fifehead Neville, DT10 2AL
- OS grid reference
- ST 768 109
- Coordinates
- 50.89741, -2.33066
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a 17th-century cottage located in the village of Fifehead Neville, with later alterations. The cottage is built with coursed rubble walls and has a Roman tile roof, half-hipped on the right side and gabled on the left. It is a single-story building with an attic, featuring a two-window front. There are two-light casement windows with horizontal glazing bars, each set beneath a wooden lintel. A single-story extension to the left includes a front door. The cottage is documented in "RCHM Dorset, Vol III," page 93, entry number 7.
Local climate
Starlings receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 5 transactions since 1996
- 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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