Balcony Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1988. House. 1 related planning application.
Balcony Cottage
- WRENN ID
- noble-turret-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 February 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Balcony Cottage, the Square, Mere, BA12 6DW
- OS grid reference
- ST 813 323
- Coordinates
- 51.09034, -2.26787
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Balcony Cottage is a house, originally two separate homes, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of coursed and square limestone, with large greensand quoins at the left end, and features a Welsh slate roof with a brick ridge stack. The property used to be situated on one side of a narrow lane but now serves as a closure to the east side of The Square.
The building has two storeys and features a symmetrical arrangement of windows with a 2+2 configuration. The left half has a 20-pane sash window and an 8-pane sash window flanking a 20th-century aluminium framed door that leads to a pent hood, situated below two half-dormers with aluminium sash windows. The right half has 16-pane sash windows at both levels. All windows have exposed sash boxes and wooden lintels. Balcony Cottage is significant as it completes the eastern end of The Square and is adjacent to The Manse on the right. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Balcony Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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