Down Barn Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Down Barn Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sacred-render-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Down Barn Cottage, West Overton
- OS grid reference
- SU 130 695
- Coordinates
- 51.42464, -1.81317
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Down Barn Cottage is a cottage built around 1850 to 1870. It is constructed from sarsen stone with brick quoins and dressings, topped with a thatched roof. The building is two storeys high and has a 'T'-shaped plan. There is a now-blocked entrance lateral to the stem of the 'T' that originally led to a stair hall. Currently, there is a boarded entrance door that opens into the living room. The cottage features paned casement windows and has thatch swept over two flush dormers, along with gable stacks. Inside, there is a large fireplace in the living room with a mantel beam and an oven to the side. This cottage is a surviving example of a remote shepherd's cottage, still retaining its traditional large fireplace.
Local climate
Down Barn Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater 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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