Bitham Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.
Bitham Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tall-floor-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bitham Cottage, Village Centre, Stert, SN10 3JD
- OS grid reference
- SU 032 593
- Coordinates
- 51.33323, -1.95522
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bitham Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, constructed with a timber frame and whitewashed brick noggings on sarsen sills, topped with a thatched roof. It is a single-storey building with an attic, consisting of 2½ bays and featuring a lobby entry at the centre half bay. The west bay is framed with four panels high and has wavy corner braces. The east bay, originally the parlour end, has been refaced in brick and raised to two storeys, likely in the early 19th century. The cottage has paned timber windows, a roof that is hipped to the right and quarter hipped to the left, and a central brick stack. There is a 20th-century flat-roofed extension at the rear. Inside, the cottage features back-to-back fireplaces with timber fire lintels and moulded ceiling beams in the parlour.
Local climate
Bitham Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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