Larcombe Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1984. Cottage.
Larcombe Cottage
- WRENN ID
- inner-doorway-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1984
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Larcombe Cottage, Powerstock
- OS grid reference
- SY 499 962
- Coordinates
- 50.76342, -2.71142
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Larcombe Cottage is a detached cottage dating from the mid-18th century. It features dressed stone walls and a thatch roof, which has stone gable-coping on the right-hand gable. There is a rendered stack on the left-hand gable and a brick stack on the right-hand gable. The cottage is 1½ storeys high and has three windows on the ground floor, which are three-light metal casements with glazing bars. Above, there are two 2-light wooden casements. There is one blocked entrance on the right side of the ground floor, while the current entrance is located on the left gable end, consisting of a wooden door with two glass panels, dating from the 20th century.
Local climate
Larcombe 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 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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