Heather Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 November 1986. Cottage.
Heather Cottage
- WRENN ID
- leaning-attic-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 November 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Heather Cottage, Holt
- OS grid reference
- SU 044 043
- Coordinates
- 50.83863, -1.9384
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Heather Cottage is a detached cottage with plastered cob walls and a thatched roof that is half hipped at the right end. It features a brick stack at the left end and is one storey with an attic. The right section is a 20th-century addition built to match the original construction. The entrance has a ledged door located in a trellised porch with a lean-to roof. On the ground floor, there are two casement windows with horizontal glazing bars, while the attic includes two dormers with casements that have a central horizontal bar.
Local climate
Heather Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 11 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings