The Milk House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 October 1979. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
The Milk House
- WRENN ID
- guardian-clay-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 October 1979
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Milk House, Cricket Club Lane, Purton, SN5 9EE
- OS grid reference
- SU 101 870
- Coordinates
- 51.58196, -1.85501
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Milk House is a cottage dating to the 17th and 18th centuries. It is constructed of limestone rubble with a thatched roof. The building originally comprised three bays and was planned as a lobby entry cottage, although it now has a boarded door on the south side. It has 19th-century timber casement windows, and a brick stack. The cottage was extended to the east with a narrower block in the 19th century, and internal partitions have been altered. The western end was likely used as a dairy in the 18th century. A datestone set in the gable reads “THOMAS CLEEGE 1656”.
Local climate
The Milk House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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