Well Close Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1974. Cottage.
Well Close Cottage
- WRENN ID
- slow-quoin-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1974
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Well Close Cottage, 1, Belcombe Road, Bradford-On-Avon
- OS grid reference
- ST 821 607
- Coordinates
- 51.34554, -2.25764
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Well Close Cottage is a late 17th century to early 18th century building that stands two storeys tall with attics beneath two gables. It is constructed from rubble with ashlar dressings and features a pantiled roof. The cottage has a variety of two- and three-light casement windows, which include moulded stone mullions and dripmoulds, as well as leaded lights. In the right-hand gable, there is a four-light wooden casement window. On the south side, there is a projecting stone porch topped with a stone tiled roof. Additionally, there is a modern two-storey extension with one window on the west side.
Local climate
Well Close Cottage receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
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