Glebe Cottage and Attached Outbuilding is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 April 1983. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Glebe Cottage and Attached Outbuilding
- WRENN ID
- vacant-cobble-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 April 1983
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Glebe Cottage and Attached Outbuilding, Fore Street, Thorncombe, TA20 4PT
- OS grid reference
- ST 377 033
- Coordinates
- 50.82666, -2.88493
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Glebe Cottage and the attached outbuilding are a single cottage dating from the 18th century. The cottage features rubble walls with brick quoins and has a half-hipped thatch roof with a brick stack at the ridge, topped with a 20th-century addition. It is two storeys high and has a range of three to four windows, which have 20th-century metal casements set in enlarged openings with new brick jambs, concrete cills, and lintels. A large diagonal rubble and brick buttress is located at the southeast corner. To the left of the centre, there is a plank door with a window opening above it. The early 19th-century brick porch has a lean-to slate roof. The attached outbuilding is constructed of rubble with brick quoins and has a slate roof, consisting of one storey and featuring a plank door.
Local climate
Glebe Cottage and Attached Outbuilding receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% 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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