Cottage Approximately 70 Metres West of Belcombe Court is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1974. Cottage.
Cottage Approximately 70 Metres West of Belcombe Court
- WRENN ID
- dim-obsidian-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1974
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- ST 816 606
- Coordinates
- 51.34448, -2.26511
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cottage approximately 70 metres west of Belcombe Court. Built in the 1740s for Francis Yerbury, this cottage features coursed limestone rubble with dressed quoins and a gabled stone-coped pantile roof, along with a stone stack at the right end. Designed in the Gothick style, it has a two-unit plan and stands two storeys tall with a two-window range. The front includes a gabled porch with a pointed-arched doorway, which contains a late 19th century half-glazed door set in square-headed architraves. The windows are paired two-light designs set in raised pointed-arched architraves, with a niche above the door framed by a raised ogee-arched architrave featuring cusping. Similar windows are found on the gable ends, alongside an 18th century two-light chamfered stone-mullioned window on the ground floor. Inside, there is a stone-flag floor and an open fireplace with a 19th century bressummer. The cottage is situated to the west of the ha-ha that bounds the garden created for Francis Yerbury, adjacent to Belcombe Court.
Local climate
Cottage Approximately 70 Metres West of Belcombe Court receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% 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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