Porch Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. A C18 Cottage. 3 related planning applications.

Porch Cottage

WRENN ID
long-tracery-thunder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1956
Type
Cottage
Address
Porch Cottage, West Stafford, DT2 8AF
OS grid reference
SY 726 895
Coordinates
50.70497, -2.38933
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Porch Cottage is a detached cottage dating from the early 18th century. It features brick walls and a thatched roof, with brick stacks at each end. The cottage has one storey and an attic. A gabled tiled porch with a battened door leads into the building. On the ground floor, there are two casement windows with glazing bars set beneath segmental arches. The attic includes three half dormers, each with similar casement windows. There are single storey extensions at both ends of the cottage, which have tiled roofs that are part hipped and part catslide. The right end extension contains one metal casement window.

Local climate

Porch Cottage 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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