The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1984. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- calm-hammer-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 December 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, Litton Cheney, DT2 9AW
- OS grid reference
- SY 550 905
- Coordinates
- 50.71288, -2.63856
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a mid-19th century house. It is constructed of rubble-stone walls with stone quoins. The roof is slate, hipped and of a low pitch, concealing brick stacks on the rear wall. The house has two storeys and three windows to the front elevation, which contain sash windows with thin glazing-bars, stone cills, and stone voussoirs. A flush-panelled front door is centrally positioned on the south elevation, featuring three top lights and a rectangular light above. A cast-iron openwork porch is attached, displaying a flowing vine-leaf pattern and a flared pent copper roof. A two-storey rear wing extends to the north, with two windows containing three-light cast-iron casements with glazing-bars, wooden cills and lintels. A centrally located door is panelled with two top lights, and is sheltered by a cast-iron openwork porch featuring an anthemion motif. A segmental roof covers the porch.
Local climate
The 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 73% 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 — 1 transaction since 2010
- 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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