Wessex Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Wessex Cottage
- WRENN ID
- over-brass-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- South Dorset MP: Lloyd Hatton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1956
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Wessex Cottage, Chapel Lane, Osmington, DT3 6EL
- OS grid reference
- SY 724 830
- Coordinates
- 50.64688, -2.39052
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wessex Cottage is a detached cottage, originally two dwellings, dating to the mid-18th century and significantly restored in the 20th century. The cottage is constructed of rubble stone walls, with extensive repointing and a buttress at the right corner. It has a thatched roof with gables at each end, and 20th-century brick stacks positioned on the ridge left of centre and on the right-hand gable. The cottage has one-and-a-half storeys and three windows, each fitted with 2 and 3 light wood casements featuring glazing-bars and wood sills, all dating to the 20th century. A 20th-century stone porch with a hipped thatched roof is located on the right side of the centre, and it contains a glazed front door, also from the 20th century.
Local climate
Wessex 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 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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 — 3 transactions since 2004
- 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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