Rossiters and the Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1985. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Rossiters and the Cottage
- WRENN ID
- calm-landing-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Rossiters and the Cottage, High Street, Child Okeford, DT11 8EH
- OS grid reference
- ST 834 125
- Coordinates
- 50.91245, -2.2364
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rossiters and the Cottage are a pair of cottages dating from the late 18th century, located on the east side of High Street in Child Okeford. The left cottage features rendered, colourwashed walls, while the right cottage has whitewashed, coursed, squared rubble walls. Both cottages have thatched roofs with brick stacks at the gable ends and along the ridge. They are two storeys high and have a total of four windows. The right cottage has segmental stone heads above its windows. The windows are three-light casements, with the left cottage's windows having horizontal glazing bars and the right cottage's windows featuring leaded-lights. Both cottages have 20th-century porches, with Rossiters having a panelled door and the Cottage having a part-glazed door.
Local climate
Rossiters and the Cottage 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 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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 — 4 transactions since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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