Fidler's Cottage Alias Violet Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1988. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Fidler's Cottage Alias Violet Cottage
- WRENN ID
- carved-brass-cobweb
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Fidler's Cottage Alias Violet Cottage, Blackboard Lane, Urchfont, SN10 4RG
- OS grid reference
- SU 037 570
- Coordinates
- 51.31276, -1.94819
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fidler’s Cottage, also known as Violet Cottage, is an 18th-century cottage situated on the west side of Blackboard Lane in Urchfont. The cottage is constructed of Flemish brickwork with stone foundation sills, and has a thatched roof. It is two storeys and an attic in height, and originally comprised two bays: a wide, heated living room with a gable stack, and a narrower bay containing the entrance. The front door is boarded with a glazed panel, and is sheltered by a flat canopy supported on brackets. A plat band runs around the building. Casement windows are present, with three lights in the wider bay, and segmental brick arches over the ground floor windows. The roof is hipped to the left. A lean-to was added to the rear in the later 18th century, under a continuous roof slope, and is rendered on its rear face. A weatherboarded and pantiled lean-to extension is present on the west side.
Local climate
Fidler's Cottage Alias Violet 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 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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