11 and 13, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1985. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
11 and 13, High Street
- WRENN ID
- heavy-finial-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 11 and 13, High Street, Downton, SP5 3PG
- OS grid reference
- SU 181 215
- Coordinates
- 50.99277, -1.74324
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 11 and 13 on High Street are a pair of cottages that date back to the early 15th century, although they were rebuilt in their current form in the mid-19th century. The cottages are constructed of header bond brick and feature a tiled roof with both a brick axial stack and gable-end stacks. The roof has seven bays. The buildings are two stories high and have six windows.
The front of the cottages includes two four-panelled doors with tiled canopies, a central round-arched entry with a planked door, and a combination of two 2-light and two 3-light casements on the ground floor. The first floor features four 4-light casements and two single casements. The eaves are decorated with dentils, and the rear of the cottages has 2-light casements.
According to records from the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, the original 15th-century roof structure includes an eastern pair of bays that were part of a former open hall, featuring a smoke-blackened arch-braced truss. A closed truss with raking queen struts to the collar separates five smoke-blackened bays from two bays that have clean roof timbers. The ground floor ceiling displays stop-chamfered beams.
Local climate
11 and 13, High Street receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 6 transactions since 1998
- 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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