Turnpike Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. Cottages.
Turnpike Cottage
- WRENN ID
- dim-loggia-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1960
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Turnpike Cottage, Church Street, Biddestone & Slaughterford
- OS grid reference
- ST 862 735
- Coordinates
- 51.46078, -2.19872
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Turnpike Cottage is a pair of cottages that have been combined into one dwelling. They date from the late 18th century or early 19th century and are built from rubble stone with a stone-tiled roof and a coped gable at the north end. The building features a north end wall stack and a ridge stack on the original party wall. It is two stories tall, with a one-room plan for each cottage.
On the right side, there is a door set in a flush stone surround, topped with a hood supported by brackets, and to the right of the door is a damaged two-light flush mullion window, which has had its jamb and mullion removed to accommodate a 20th-century metal window. The left side has a three-light window on the ground floor, with the end light featuring a timber head and jamb, and a two-light window on the first floor. There is a blocked door and a two-light window above in the south end wall. The cottage is prominently located at the west end of The Green and is listed for its group value.
Local climate
Turnpike Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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