Lock Keeper's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. Cottage.

Lock Keeper's Cottage

WRENN ID
dusted-banister-peregrine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swindon
Constituency
Swindon North MP: Will Stone (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Cottage
Address
Lock Keeper's Cottage, A 420, South Marston
OS grid reference
SU 194 867
Coordinates
51.57914, -1.72111
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lock Keeper's Cottage is an early 19th-century building located on the former Wilts and Berks Canal. It is two storeys high, constructed of rubble and brick with a pebbledash finish. The cottage features a hipped slate roof and has three windows, which include glazing bar sashes, with casements in the right-hand bay. There is a modern central lean-to at the south end that is angled, and a taller tiled extension with two windows to the north that dates from a later period. The cottage is included in the register for its historical and socio-economic significance.

Local climate

Lock Keeper's 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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