Rafters and Hetherings is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1984. A C18 Residential. 1 related planning application.
Rafters and Hetherings
- WRENN ID
- pitched-gravel-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1984
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Rafters and Hetherings, Melcombe Horsey, DT2 7PE
- OS grid reference
- ST 762 025
- Coordinates
- 50.82233, -2.33848
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of cottages, likely constructed in the 18th century, possibly with later additions. The cottages have rendered walls and a thatched roof, with rendered and brick stacks at each end and along the ridge of a rear wing. They form an L-shaped plan. Rafters is one and a half storeys high, while Hetherings is two storeys. The overall facade has approximately six window bays. Rafters has 20th-century two-light casement windows with glazing bars. Hetherings has 20th-century two-light casement windows, with no glazing bars; the ground-floor central window likely replaces a former doorway.
Local climate
Rafters and Hetherings receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% 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 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 8 transactions since 1997
- 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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