The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. A Not specified Residential. 1 related planning application.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- gilded-timber-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- Swindon North MP: Will Stone (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Residential
- Period
- Not specified
- Address
- The Cottage, Chapel Hill, Blunsdon, SN26 7BL
- OS grid reference
- SU 148 906
- Coordinates
- 51.6148, -1.78674
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is an 18th-century building located in Broad Blunsdon. It is constructed of painted rubble and features a thatched roof with a brick ridge chimney. The building has one eyebrow dormer and two windows. To the left, there is a 19th-century 'lumber-shed' extension. The entrance door is positioned to the right of the center.
Local climate
The Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2004
- 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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