Dale Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1985. Detached house.

Dale Cottage

WRENN ID
iron-threshold-equinox
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 October 1985
Type
Detached house
Address
Dale Cottage, Milton Abbas
OS grid reference
ST 803 014
Coordinates
50.81201, -2.28035
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dale Cottage is a detached house dating from the late 18th century. It features plastered cob walls set on a flint base, which is colourwashed, and has a hipped thatched roof with one brick chimney stack at the left end and another at the rear right end. The building is two storeys high with attics. The ground floor includes two glazed doors, two casements with glazing bars, and one casement with lead lights. On the first floor, there are four casements with lead lights, and the attic has one dormer with casements. At the left end, there is a late 19th-century extension made of flint with a slate roof and a ledged door. A rear wing, which is entered at first floor level due to the rise in the ground, is constructed of plastered cob and has a thatched roof. Inside, the main ground floor room features a large open fireplace with a timber lintel and some exposed ceiling beams.

Local climate

Dale 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 69% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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