Rosemary Cottage. Ryme Cottage. East Wing of Floracre. is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1971. Cottage. 7 related planning applications.

Rosemary Cottage. Ryme Cottage. East Wing of Floracre.

WRENN ID
vast-zinc-bistre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 November 1971
Type
Cottage
Address
Rosemary Cottage. Ryme Cottage. East Wing of Floracre., Yeovil Road, Sherborne, DT9 4BB
OS grid reference
ST 632 168
Coordinates
50.94961, -2.52421
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

Rosemary Cottage, Ryme Cottage, and the east wing of Floracre are a row of cottages located on Yeovil Road, dating from the 18th to the 19th century. The buildings are constructed of coursed rubble and feature thatched roofs. Rosemary Cottage has two window bays with small 2-light casements, the lower ones having segmental heads. It includes a porch with a modern half-glazed door and has a roughcast front. Ryme Cottage also has a thatched roof, with three small casements above and two below. It features a half-glazed door on the right with a modern segmental corrugated hood, and a modern porch with a half-glazed door on the left. The east wing of Floracre has a modern plaintile roof, with two small 2-light windows above and a 2-light window below, alongside a wooden gabled porch to the left. These cottages, along with Barton Farmhouse, Barton Farm Cottage, the garden wall to Barton Farmhouse, Cliff House, Smithy, and the west wing of Floracre, form a cohesive group.

Local climate

Rosemary Cottage. Ryme Cottage. East Wing of Floracre. receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2003
  • Related listed building consents — 7 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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