Oakwood is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1958. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Oakwood
- WRENN ID
- eternal-string-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1958
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Oakwood, 29, Long Street, Cerne Abbas, DT2 7JG
- OS grid reference
- ST 666 011
- Coordinates
- 50.80935, -2.47513
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oakwood is an attached cottage dating from the mid-18th century. It features brick walls constructed in both Flemish bond and header bond, topped with a Roman tile roof. The cottage has brick stacks at the end gables and stands two storeys high, with three windows that include a mix of 2-light casements and 19th-century sashes. The front door, located to the left of centre, has four fielded panels and two top lights, dating from the 20th century. To the right of centre, there are coach-house doors made of planks with strap hinges and a wooden lintel above.
Local climate
Oakwood receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 4 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
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