22 23, Old Derry Hill is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1986. Cottage.

22 23, Old Derry Hill

WRENN ID
ragged-stair-meadow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 July 1986
Type
Cottage
Address
22 23, Old Derry Hill, Derry Hill & Studley
OS grid reference
ST 956 706
Coordinates
51.4344, -2.06452
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos 22 and 23 on Old Derry Hill are a pair of cottages built in 1853 for the Bowood estate, designed by Emily, Lady Shelburne. They are constructed from squared rubble stone and feature stone slate valley roofs, barge boarded eaves, and octagonal paired chimney stacks. The cottages are one and a half storeys tall and are designed in a Tudor style, with leaded stone mullion windows.

The south front has stacks on the roof slope, two 2-light dormer gables with finials, and two 3-light ground floor windows with hoodmoulds, along with a central Tudor-arched doorway. There is a lean-to stone slate verandah at the center and to the right. The west end has two gables, with the larger one on the right featuring a 2-light mullion window on each floor. The east end, facing the road, has two gables; the left one has a 2-light window above a canted 1-2-1-light stone bay, while the right gable projects and has a 2-light window above an ashlar Tudor-arched gabled porch leading to No 22. The valley between the ranges has three octagonal shafts. On the north side, there are two stone dormer gables, with a lean-to added to the left and a 2-light window to the right. A recessed gable to the right has a 2-light window on each floor. The design is noted in the Bowood estate plans, indicating that the cottages were built in 1853 at a cost of £376/5/7.

Local climate

22 23, Old Derry Hill receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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