Icknield Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Icknield Cottage
- WRENN ID
- veiled-merlon-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Icknield Cottage, Bishopstone, SN4 0DH
- OS grid reference
- SU 222 833
- Coordinates
- 51.54865, -1.67997
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Icknield Cottage is an 18th-century thatched cottage with later additions to the south. It has one and a half storeys and features a half-hipped roof on the left side. The cottage is constructed of painted rubble, with the southern part being partly brick at the front. It has three eyebrow dormers and a total of four casement windows: two are three-light and two are two-light. The cottage includes a thatched porch with a glazed door located roughly in the center, as well as a door in the center of the left-hand part, which is adorned with brackets supporting a slight pediment that has a segmental soffit. The building is topped by two brick chimneys.
Local climate
Icknield 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 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 1 application
- 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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