Unicorn Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
Unicorn Cottage
- WRENN ID
- nether-merlon-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1960
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Unicorn Cottage, the Street, Castle Combe, SN14 7HU
- OS grid reference
- ST 841 771
- Coordinates
- 51.49265, -2.229
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Unicorn Cottage is a house dating from the 16th or early 17th century, constructed of rubble stone with a stone tiled roof and a chimney stack at the south end. The building has one-and-a-half storeys and features two dormer gables, each with two-light leaded timber casements. The right side gable includes a chimney stack. On the ground floor, there is a door set in a shallow gabled stone porch, alongside a three-light flush ovolo-moulded stone-mullion window with a dripstone, and a two-light chamfered stone-mullion window, also with a dripstone. The windows have leaded lights. To the right side, there is a through passage with a heavy timber doorcase, which is now part of Unicorn Gallery. At the rear, there is a wing with a chimney stack at the west end.
Local climate
Unicorn Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- 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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