Gordon Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. A C18 Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Gordon Cottage
- WRENN ID
- long-footing-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- Swindon North MP: Will Stone (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Gordon Cottage, Thornhill Road, South Marston, SN3 4RY
- OS grid reference
- SU 189 876
- Coordinates
- 51.58718, -1.72729
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gordon Cottage is a 18th-century building that has been extended and features two and a half storeys. The cottage is partly thatched and has a half hipped roof with a central brick chimney stack. The exterior is finished in pebbledash, with the rear made of stone and brick. The left side has a two-storey section with an asbestos slate roof, one window, and a porch. The right side is one and a half storeys high, featuring two eyebrow dormers and three ground floor windows, one of which was originally a door. Inside, there is an inglenook fireplace.
Local climate
Gordon Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 3 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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