Launceston Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. Cottage.
Launceston Cottage
- WRENN ID
- over-dormer-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1955
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Launceston Cottage, Tarrant Launceston
- OS grid reference
- ST 944 091
- Coordinates
- 50.88224, -2.07979
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Launceston Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located in Tarrant Launceston. The building is rendered and whitewashed, topped with a thatched roof and features a brick stack on the right side. It stands two storeys high and has a two-window range, with an extension on the left. The windows on the upper floor are 20th-century, two-light casements. On the ground floor, there is an inserted three-light stone mullioned window to the left, and a central porch is present.
Local climate
Launceston Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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