Drive End Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1986. Cottage.
Drive End Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gentle-portal-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 June 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Drive End Cottage, Melbury Osmond
- OS grid reference
- ST 580 080
- Coordinates
- 50.87003, -2.59818
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Drive End Cottage is a detached cottage dating from the late 19th century. It features rubble-stone walls with stone dressings and has slate roofs with stone gable copings. A 20th-century brick stack is located at the right-hand gable. The cottage is one and a half storeys tall and has two windows, which are two- and three-light stone mullions, fitted with cast-iron casements that have a lozenge pattern of glazing bars, each with separate labels above. There are two gabled dormers, also with stone gable copings and moulded kneelers, featuring two-light cast-iron casements. The front door is centrally located, framed by stone jambs and topped with a stone label. The door itself is a plank door with ornamental strap hinges, dating from the 19th century. An outhouse is situated at the west end, constructed with rubble-stone walls and a gabled slate roof, and it has a plank door with wood framing.
Local climate
Drive End Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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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