Digby Estate No 86 and Digby Estate No 87 (Sunny Cottage) is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1973. House.

Digby Estate No 86 and Digby Estate No 87 (Sunny Cottage)

WRENN ID
first-jamb-cobweb
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 October 1973
Type
House
Address
Digby Estate No 86 and Digby Estate No 87 (Sunny Cottage), Back Lane, Sherborne
OS grid reference
ST 635 168
Coordinates
50.94992, -2.5196
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Digby Estate No 86 and Digby Estate No 87, also known as Sunny Cottage, is a pair of houses dating from 1625. They feature 19th-century fronts and are two stories high with two window bays and a central doorway for each house. The roofs are slate with a gabled design, having a red tile ridge, stone slates towards the verge, and stone coping with kneelers. The front is made of stone rubble. Each house has small two-light segmental headed casement windows and segmental headed doorways, which have ledged doors set in frames. Digby Estate Nos 85 to 88, along with Keld and Homestead, form a group.

Local climate

Digby Estate No 86 and Digby Estate No 87 (Sunny 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 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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