Jack's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Jack's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- inner-rampart-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1955
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Jack's Cottage, Tarrant Launceston, DT11 8RU
- OS grid reference
- ST 942 089
- Coordinates
- 50.88026, -2.08273
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Jack’s Cottage is an 18th-century cottage located in Tarrant Launceston village. It is rendered and whitewashed, with a thatched roof that is hipped on the right side. A brick stack rises from the ridge towards the right end. The cottage is one and a half storeys tall and has a two-window front, with a later extension to the right. It features two-light casement windows, with horizontal glazing bars to the ground floor. A central 20th-century part-glazed plank door provides access.
Local climate
Jack's Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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 — 9 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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