Onslow Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Cottage. 9 related planning applications.

Onslow Cottage

WRENN ID
hushed-obsidian-hazel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1956
Type
Cottage
Address
Onslow Cottage, 8 and 9, Dorchester Road, Sydling St. Nicholas, DT2 9NU
OS grid reference
SY 632 991
Coordinates
50.79034, -2.5224
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Two attached cottages stand at right angles, built in the late 18th century and subsequently altered. The cottages have roughcast rubble-stone walls, painted, and a thatched roof with gable ends. Brick stacks are visible at the gable ends and at the centre of the ridge. Number 9 faces the roadside and is 1½ storeys high with 5 windows. The ground floor features a 2-light casement at the left end, and small sash windows with glazing bars at the right end; these windows have unusual wood dentil cornices with bracketed wooden hoods. There are two 20th-century dormers (with casements) at the left end, a square casement with glazing bars, and two sashes above to the right. The front door on the left is plank and glass, also from the 20th century; the door on the right is plank with the top half glazed and stable-type. Number 8 is a smaller cottage located at the rear, constructed from the same materials and also 1½ storeys high. It has 20th-century metal casements and a plank-and-muntin front door in the angle between the two cottages, again dating to the 20th century.

Local climate

Onslow Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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  • Sale history — 5 transactions since 2008
  • Related listed building consents — 9 applications
  • 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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