Horsehill Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1987. Cottage.
Horsehill Cottage
- WRENN ID
- upper-pinnacle-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 July 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Horsehill Cottage, Front Horse Hill Lane, Donhead St. Mary, SP7 9DS
- OS grid reference
- ST 906 234
- Coordinates
- 51.01014, -2.13413
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Horsehill Cottage is a detached cottage dating from the mid-17th century, with alterations made in the 18th century. It is constructed of dressed limestone and features a thatched roof with a hip to the right and brick stacks. The cottage has a central baffle entry and is two storeys high with three windows.
On the ground floor, there is a blocked doorway to the left of the center, a three-light casement window to the left, and a three-light recessed chamfered mullioned casement with a small fixed window to the right. The first floor includes a three-light casement window and a two-light mullioned casement in a former full dormer, along with a two-light wooden mullioned casement to the right, with the eaves raised. The right side of the cottage has a three-light casement window on the first floor, while the left side features a single-storey lean-to extension with two-light casements, a six-panelled door, and a pantiled roof.
At the rear, there is a 20th-century porch, along with two-light casements and a two-light mullioned casement on the first floor. Inside, the cottage has an open fireplace with a timber lintel on stone jambs, deeply chamfered beams with ovolo stops, and planked doors.
Local climate
Horsehill Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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