Oak Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 6 related planning applications.
Oak Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sacred-tracery-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Oak Cottage, 17, Main Street, Loders, DT6 3SA
- OS grid reference
- SY 495 942
- Coordinates
- 50.74543, -2.71695
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oak Cottage is a detached cottage dated 1755, as indicated by a tablet inscribed "K B 1755 I G B." The cottage is constructed of rubble stone walls with a thatched roof featuring gable ends. Brick stacks are situated at each gable. It is a two-story building with five two-light windows, fitted with 20th-century wooden casements containing glazing bars. Wooden sills and lintels are present. The central front door is planked with two glazed lights above and is a 20th-century addition. A 20th-century rubble-stone porch with a tiled gabled roof covers the front door.
Local climate
Oak Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 2 transactions since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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