Sunnyside and Wayside Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Cottages. 1 related planning application.
Sunnyside and Wayside Cottages
- WRENN ID
- over-parapet-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Sunnyside and Wayside Cottages, West Knighton, DT2 8PE
- OS grid reference
- SY 733 877
- Coordinates
- 50.68908, -2.37905
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sunnyside and Wayside Cottages are two attached cottages that were originally a farmhouse, dating back to the 17th century with a brick refacing dated 1719. The building features a rendered plinth and brick-faced walls with a plat band, topped by a thatched roof that is half-hipped on the left side and gabled on the right. There is a substantial brick chimney stack located at the ridge left of center and another at the right gable. The structure has two storeys and includes four windows, primarily 20th-century wooden casements, along with one 19th-century cast iron casement on the upper right. The ground floor windows have cambered brick arches.
The entrance to Sunnyside is on the left end wall, featuring a 20th-century brick porch with a gabled roof and a glazed door. The Wayside entrance has a 19th-century plank door on the north end wall, accompanied by a plank porch. Inside, the cottage has three rooms that have been subdivided, with bread ovens located in the two northern rooms.
At the rear of the house is an attached 18th-century barn that has been converted into a dwelling between 2004 and 2005, but this structure is not of special interest. Overall, Sunnyside and Wayside Cottages are a notable example of a 17th-century and early 18th-century farmhouse that largely retains its original structure and layout.
Local climate
Sunnyside and Wayside Cottages receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2004
- 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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