Overton Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 October 1983. House. 2 related planning applications.
Overton Cottage
- WRENN ID
- pitched-tin-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 October 1983
- Type
- House
- Address
- Overton Cottage, Church Lane, Sturminster Newton, DT10 1DH
- OS grid reference
- ST 786 139
- Coordinates
- 50.92475, -2.30523
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Overton Cottage is an early 19th-century house located on the north side of Church Lane, Sturminster Newton. It has a brick facade laid in a Flemish bond pattern, with rubble on the rear and sides. The roof is tiled, with a gable end to the right and brick chimney stacks. The symmetrical facade is three bays wide with sash windows featuring vertical glazing bars, all set beneath flat brick arches. Two gabled dormers are visible in the roof. The central doorway has a 19th-century wooden lattice porch.
Local climate
Overton Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 11 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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