Bush Cottage and Cottage Adjoining South-West is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 January 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Bush Cottage and Cottage Adjoining South-West
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-lead-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 January 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Bush Cottage and Cottage Adjoining South-West, SP8 5AT
- OS grid reference
- ST 778 309
- Coordinates
- 51.07709, -2.31758
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of cottages dating from around 1800, located on Bourton High Street. They are built of coursed rubble with tiled, gable-ended roofs and end brick stacks. The cottages have two storeys and a five-window front. They feature four-pane sash windows and casements, many with glazing bars. Bush Cottage has a single-storey outshut added in the 20th century. The cottage to the left has a central door, which is partially glazed and panelled.
Local climate
Bush Cottage and Cottage Adjoining South-West receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 2 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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