Lumley Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 October 1983. Cottage.
Lumley Cottage
- WRENN ID
- half-column-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 October 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Lumley Cottage, Sturminster Newton
- OS grid reference
- ST 787 125
- Coordinates
- 50.91243, -2.30343
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lumley Cottage is a late 18th-century cottage constructed of rubble stone, featuring a thatched roof with a gable on the left side and a hip on the right. It has an end brick stack and stands two storeys high with a two-window range. The façade includes four 2-light casements with glazing bars and a central 20th-century door. The openings are set under wooden lintels. Inside, there are straw and plaster divisions along with hair and plaster ceilings. The cottage also has 20th-century additions at the rear.
Local climate
Lumley Cottage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
- No related consent applications matched
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