Drive Cottage Gable End is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 June 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Drive Cottage Gable End

WRENN ID
empty-gable-vermeil
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 June 1986
Type
Cottage
Address
Drive Cottage Gable End, the Drive, Over Compton, DT9 4QU
OS grid reference
ST 592 169
Coordinates
50.95042, -2.5818
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Drive Cottage and Gable End are a pair of estate cottages dated 1892. They feature ashlar stone walls and clay-tile roofs with gable ends and stone gable copings. There are stone stacks located at the left-hand gable, the ridge center, and the right-hand gable. The cottages are 1½ and 2 storeys high, with a total of 6 windows. The outer windows are gabled, and the center pair of windows are also gabled. The ground floor windows consist of 6, 4, 4, and 6 lights, while the first floor has 4, 3, 3, 3, 3, and 4 lights. These windows have ovolo-moulded stone mullions, a continuous string over the ground floor, and returned labels above. The windows are fitted with iron casements and lead lights. The entrances, located to the left and right of the center, feature moulded jambs and 4-centred heads. The doors are plank-style, with glazing in the upper half.

Local climate

Drive Cottage Gable End receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2002
  • 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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