Moorland Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1984. Cottage.
Moorland Cottage
- WRENN ID
- grim-pillar-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Moorland Cottage, 78, Winfrith Newburgh
- OS grid reference
- SY 810 856
- Coordinates
- 50.67034, -2.26993
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Moorland Cottage is a semi-detached cottage located in East Knighton, attached to Heath View on the north side. It dates from the late 18th century to early 19th century and features plastered cob walls and a thatched roof with a brick stack. The cottage has one storey and an attic. At the front, there is a brick porch with a tiled roof and a ledged door. The ground floor includes two horizontally sliding sash windows with glazing bars, while the attic has two half-dormers with casement windows that also have glazing bars. To the north, there is a single-storey extension with plastered walls and a thatched roof, which contains four casement windows with glazing bars. Additionally, there is a flat-roofed extension at the rear.
Local climate
Moorland Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% 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 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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