Knapp Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1987. Pair of cottages. 1 related planning application.
Knapp Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sheer-niche-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 July 1987
- Type
- Pair of cottages
- Address
- Knapp Cottage, Vicarage Road, Tisbury, SP3 6HZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 941 292
- Coordinates
- 51.06294, -2.08422
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Knapp Cottage is a pair of cottages that have been converted into one house. The date "1698" is incised on the door lintel. The building is constructed of rubble stone with an asbestos slate roof, featuring stone and brick gable ends and axial brick stacks. The entrance is located at the rear.
The south front is two stories high and has four windows. On the left, there is a 20th-century glazed door in a porch, and to the right, a planked door, both surrounded by chamfered stone. To the left, there is a 20th-century casement window, while to the right, there are recessed chamfered mullioned casements with two lights and three lights. The first floor has four three-light mullioned casements, with the two on the left featuring cast-iron latticed casements.
There is a single-storey 19th-century extension with a double Roman tiled roof and a planked door on the left. The right side of the building has either two-light or single-light mullioned casements on the ground, first, and attic floors. The left side has a two-light casement on the first floor. The rear features 20th-century ground floor casements and two single-light chamfered casements on the first floor.
Inside, there is a chamfered beam with stepped stops and an open fireplace with a renewed lintel set on chamfered stone jambs.
Local climate
Knapp Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1997
- 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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