Grobham Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1986. Almshouses. 1 related planning application.
Grobham Cottages
- WRENN ID
- ruined-ember-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1986
- Type
- Almshouses
- Address
- Grobham Cottages, 1 and 2, West Street, Great Wishford, SP2 0PH
- OS grid reference
- SU 080 355
- Coordinates
- 51.11891, -1.88654
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grobham Cottages are two former almshouses dating from the early 17th century, originally built as four. They are constructed from banded flint and limestone with a tiled roof and gable end rendered stacks. The cottages have a baffle-entry design and are single storey with an attic, featuring four windows with casements. There are two chamfered stone doorcases at the center and two at the ends, all fitted with 20th-century doors. The windows include four 2-light recessed hollow-chamfered mullioned casements with 20th-century steel casements, and there are four hipped dormers with 20th-century casements. The rear of the building has 20th-century lean-to extensions and doors, along with single-light recessed hollow-chamfered casements. The interiors were altered and modernized in the 1960s, retaining some chamfered beams. These almshouses were endowed by Sir Richard Grobham in his will of 1628, and his monument can be found in the Church of St Giles.
Local climate
Grobham Cottages receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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