Spring Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 May 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Spring Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-plaster-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 May 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Spring Cottage, Littlebredy, DT2 9HH
- OS grid reference
- SY 587 889
- Coordinates
- 50.69848, -2.58574
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Spring Cottage is a detached cottage built in the mid to late 19th century. It features rubble-stone walls that are roughcast, sitting on a dressed stone plinth. The roof is thatched with gable ends, and there is a brick stack located approximately at the center ridge with triple stacks. The cottage is one and a half storeys high and has two windows, which are two-light cast-iron casements with lozenge lights and stone cills. The front door is located on the right-hand side of the front wall and is a plank-and-muntin door with a depressed-arch head.
Local climate
Spring 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 73% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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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