Virginia Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1974. A C18 House. 3 related planning applications.
Virginia Cottage
- WRENN ID
- late-marble-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1974
- Type
- House
- Address
- Virginia Cottage, Bath Road, Marlborough, SN8 1NN
- OS grid reference
- SU 179 687
- Coordinates
- 51.41753, -1.74384
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Virginia Cottage is an 18th-century building located on the north side of Bath Road. It is constructed of chequer brick and features a thatched roof with a catslide at the rear. The cottage is one storey high with attics and has three ranges of casement windows that include lead glazing bars, along with eyebrow thatching above the attic dormers. The entrance door is concealed by a porch. There is a single-storey extension to the west, which is weatherboarded with a thatched roof and includes one casement window with glazing bars.
Local climate
Virginia Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 4 transactions since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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