Higher Moorbath Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. Cottage, former farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Higher Moorbath Cottage
- WRENN ID
- western-tracery-brook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage, former farmhouse
- Address
- Higher Moorbath Cottage, Broadoak Road, Symondsbury, DT6 6HN
- OS grid reference
- SY 435 952
- Coordinates
- 50.75382, -2.80115
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Higher Moorbath Cottage is a single cottage that was formerly a farmhouse, dating from the 17th century. It features rubble stone walls with some areas of render and a thatched roof with stone gable copings. There are brick stacks at both the left and right gables. The cottage has two storeys and an unheated central room. It has between four and five windows, which are wooden casements with two and three lights, some of which retain glazing bars. A stone label is present above the right ground window, and wooden lintels are used throughout. The front door is located to the left of centre, set in a doorway with straight-chamfered jambs and a Tudor-arch head made from a large block, dating from the 17th century. The door itself is a plank door from the 20th century. On the north gable wall, there are two 2-light stone-mullion windows, which feature hollow-chamfers and labels.
Local climate
Higher Moorbath Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% 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 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- 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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