Priory Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 December 1980. House. 3 related planning applications.

Priory Cottage

WRENN ID
slow-attic-cream
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 December 1980
Type
House
Address
Priory Cottage, 1, Bences Lane, Corsham, SN13 0DD
OS grid reference
ST 872 707
Coordinates
51.43569, -2.18532
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Priory Cottage is a house built around 1840, constructed from squared rubble stone with a hipped stone tiled roof and end wall stacks. The building has two storeys and features a three-window range with flush quoins. The windows are sash style, with a 12-pane window in the centre of the first floor and 16-pane windows on the sides. There is a flat dripstone above the ground floor side windows. The entrance has a central six-panel door that is topped with a hood supported by brackets. Additionally, there is a single-storey extension on the north side of the cottage.

Local climate

Priory Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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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