The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1985. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- old-beam-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Cottage, Castle Lane, Alderbury, SP5 3EQ
- OS grid reference
- SU 194 262
- Coordinates
- 51.03553, -1.72353
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a detached cottage dating from the early 18th century. It is constructed of English bond brick with a tiled roof and brick stacks. The building has an L-plan layout that runs at right angles to the road and is a single storey with an attic, featuring four windows. The central entrance has an 8-panelled door set within a hipped roofed porch. The windows are segmental headed casements with cast iron latticing, and to the left of the entrance is a round-arched opening leading to another door. The first floor includes a hipped dormer on the right side and a tile-hung hipped dormer on the left above the door, which has a casement window. The right side of the cottage has a casement window in the attic. The rear wing features the same style of casements with diamond leading. Inside, there is an axial chamfered beam with ogee stops. The cottage was originally built as a single-cell structure with extensions added to either side and to the rear.
Local climate
The Old Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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