Kingsbury Hill Cottage and Merle Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1974. Cottage.
Kingsbury Hill Cottage and Merle Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ancient-iron-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1974
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Kingsbury Hill Cottage and Merle Cottage, 33, Kingsbury Street, Marlborough, SN8 1JA
- OS grid reference
- SU 188 693
- Coordinates
- 51.42299, -1.73045
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kingsbury Hill Cottage and Merle Cottage are two cottages dating from the 18th century located on Kingsbury Street. Merle Cottage is two stories with an attic, featuring colour-washed brick on the ground floor and tile hanging on the upper part, topped with an old tile roof. It has two gabled dormer casements with lead lights and two similar three-light casements on the first floor. On the ground floor, there is a nine-panel door to the left, along with one three-light casement with 19th-century lights and one four-light casement with 18th-century lead lights. The adjoining cottage is one story with an attic, constructed of chequer brick and also has an old tile roof. It features two gabled dormers with modern lights, one three-light casement, one two-light casement from the 19th century, and a plain door to the left on the ground floor. Together, Nos 17 to 34 form a group.
Local climate
Kingsbury Hill Cottage and Merle Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 1 transaction since 1995
- No related consent applications matched
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