Bumblebee Cottage, Hollyhocks, The Old Chapel and Virginia Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1961. Cottage. 6 related planning applications.
Bumblebee Cottage, Hollyhocks, The Old Chapel and Virginia Cottage
- WRENN ID
- knotted-hearth-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1961
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Bumblebee Cottage, Hollyhocks, The Old Chapel and Virginia Cottage, North Street, Bradford Abbas, DT9 6SA
- OS grid reference
- ST 589 147
- Coordinates
- 50.93062, -2.58582
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A row of four cottages dates from the 18th century. The cottages are constructed of coursed rubble stone with a continuous thatched roof, featuring gable ends. Brick stacks are located on the left-hand gable and three further stacks rise from the ridge at the party walls. The cottages are one and a half storeys high, and have a total of nine windows with irregular placement. Virginia Cottage has two-light wooden casements with glazing bars. The Old Chapel features iron casements, leaded windows, and a large 20th-century ground floor window. Hollyhocks has two-light 20th-century wooden casements with glazing bars. Bumblebee Cottage has iron casements and lead lights. Each cottage has a 20th-century plank front door with strap hinges.
Local climate
Bumblebee Cottage, Hollyhocks, The Old Chapel and Virginia Cottage 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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 19 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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