Chimes Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Chimes Cottage
- WRENN ID
- leaning-plaster-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1960
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Chimes Cottage, the Butts, Biddestone & Slaughterford, SN14 7DY
- OS grid reference
- ST 860 734
- Coordinates
- 51.45971, -2.20252
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chimes Cottage is an early 18th-century pair of cottages, now combined into a single house, located on The Butts in Biddestone. The building is constructed of rubble stone with a thatched roof, featuring coped gables and end wall stacks. It has one-and-a-half storeys with two casement pair dormers.
The ground floor front has, from left to right, a two-light window with a cyma-moulded mullion, a doorway, a small casement pair with a wood lintel, a renewed two-light stone-mullion window replacing a former doorway, and a three-light chamfered mullion window with a hood. A single dormer is visible at the rear, with an altered timber casement, a narrow light, a moulded mullion, and a replaced wider light. Another two-light mullion window with a hood is present on the ground floor.
The interior includes a stone party wall with a timber-framed full-height partition to the left of a cross passage. Stairs are situated from the cross passage and on the east end wall. A 20th-century rear extension has been added.
Local climate
Chimes 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 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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