Lilac Cottage and Little Thatch is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1988. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Lilac Cottage and Little Thatch
- WRENN ID
- stranded-pediment-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Lilac Cottage and Little Thatch, 1, Oak Lane, Easterton, SN10 4PD
- OS grid reference
- SU 020 548
- Coordinates
- 51.29321, -1.97163
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of cottages dating from the 18th or early 19th century. They are built of whitewashed rubble with a thatched roof. Each cottage has two storeys and two bays, with doors and windows spaced irregularly. No. 9 High Street has a 20th-century tiled porch enclosing its entrance door. The windows are 19th-century. No. 1 Oak Lane has a glazed door at the rear, replacing what was formerly the front door and which is now a window. The roof is hipped and features a brick stack positioned off-centre at the top of the rear slope.
Local climate
Lilac Cottage and Little Thatch receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more 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 — 7 transactions since 1996
- 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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