Vicarage Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 November 1966. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Vicarage Cottage
- WRENN ID
- vacant-zinc-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 November 1966
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Vicarage Cottage, Powerstock, DT6 3TE
- OS grid reference
- SY 516 963
- Coordinates
- 50.76437, -2.68695
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Vicarage Cottage is a detached cottage dating from the early 18th century. It features rubble stone walls and a thatch roof, which has a gable end on the left side and is half-hipped on the right side. There is one brick chimney stack on the left gable. The cottage is two storeys high and has two small square, two-light wooden casement windows with horizontal glazing bars, which are in their original openings and have wooden cills. The front door, located at the centre, is a plank door from the 18th century and is set within a large door frame. Above the door is a porch with a hipped thatch canopy. Attached to the right side is a single-storey extension from the 19th century, also with a thatch roof, featuring a plank door with one glass light.
Local climate
Vicarage Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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