Queen Elizabeth Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1955. Cottage.
Queen Elizabeth Cottage
- WRENN ID
- worn-render-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 January 1955
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Queen Elizabeth Cottage, 42, Broad Town Road
- OS grid reference
- SU 089 780
- Coordinates
- 51.50146, -1.87221
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Queen Elizabeth Cottage is a cottage dating from the 16th to 17th century. It is timber framed with brick infill and features a thatched roof. The cottage has a lobby entry from the rear and consists of three bays, with a half bay for the entry stair and a stack located between the first and second bays, all aligned parallel to the street. The square framing is three bays high and includes straight corner braces. Recent additions include canted bay windows with leaded glazing, a framed raised dormer at the rear right-hand end, and two raised blocked dormers. Inside, there is a clunch stack with a chamfered mantel beam and a brick oven, along with chamfered spine beams.
Local climate
Queen Elizabeth 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 lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% 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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