Walnut Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1986. Cottage.
Walnut Tree Cottage
- WRENN ID
- proud-vestry-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 June 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Walnut Tree Cottage, Melbury Osmond
- OS grid reference
- ST 576 074
- Coordinates
- 50.86527, -2.60295
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Walnut Tree Cottage is a detached cottage located in Melbury Osmond, dating from the early 17th century and refenestrated in the 19th century. The building features rubble-stone walls and a thatched roof that is half-hipped at the left end and gabled at the right end. It has rebuilt brick stacks at the ridge, adjacent to the passage, and at the right gable. The cottage is two storeys high and has four windows, which are two-light iron casements with lead lights, wood lintels, and cills. The front door is positioned at the right center and is a flush-panelled design with two top lights, framed in wood and dating from the 19th century. The door is adorned with stone voussoirs.
Local climate
Walnut Tree 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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