Bridge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1987. House.

Bridge Cottage

WRENN ID
dark-ember-vermeil
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 May 1987
Type
House
Address
Bridge Cottage, Rivermead, Idmiston
OS grid reference
SU 196 376
Coordinates
51.13782, -1.71991
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bridge Cottage is a house dating from the early 18th century, with a 20th-century extension. It is constructed of rendered cob on flint footings and extended in colourwashed brick, topped with a thatched roof. The building is two storeys high and has four bays, featuring a lobby entry plan that includes the original structure of three bays: a living room on the left and two narrower rooms on the right. The fourth bay is a kitchen extension added around 1940. The cottage has a boarded door set in a simple porch and paned casement windows, although the extension has 20th-century metal windows. The roof is half hipped to the left, with an exposed truss infilled with wattle and daub. Inside, the main fireplace in the left room is blocked, and there are spine beams with run-out stops. At the time of the survey in July 1986, the property was awaiting modernisation.

Local climate

Bridge Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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