Dormer Cottage the Red House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1990. House. 6 related planning applications.
Dormer Cottage the Red House
- WRENN ID
- brooding-keystone-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 May 1990
- Type
- House
- Address
- Dormer Cottage the Red House, 5, Back Lane, Ramsbury, SN8 2QH
- OS grid reference
- SU 275 716
- Coordinates
- 51.44326, -1.60538
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dormer Cottage and The Red House are two houses dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century, with some alterations. They are constructed of red brick with some blue headers in Flemish bond, and the rear and left return feature header-brick and flint bands at the ground and first floors. The roof is covered with plain tiles. The buildings are two storeys high with an attic and consist of five bays. The openings have segmental brick arches.
The three left bays include a central six-panel door, with the top two panels glazed, and a two-light window above it, flanked by three-light windows on both the ground and first floors. There is a plate band at the first floor. The two right bays have an inserted door with a two-light window to its left in the left bay, and in the right bay, there is a bricked-up doorway and a three-light window, with two three-light windows above. The eaves are stepped and dentilled. The half-hipped mansard roof features five two-light gabled dormers. The gable ends have stepped eaves, which are dentilled at the top, and there is a two-light attic window and an inserted door on the left return. A late 20th-century rear conservatory is present but is not of special interest.
Local climate
Dormer Cottage the Red House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 2 transactions since 2008
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- 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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