Church Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Church Cottage
- WRENN ID
- turning-zinc-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Church Cottage, Luckington
- OS grid reference
- ST 840 830
- Coordinates
- 51.54587, -2.23133
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church Cottage is a former school that was converted into a cottage in 1832, designed by James Thomson for Joseph Neeld of Grittleton. The building is constructed from squared rubble stone and features a low-pitched slate roof with half-hipped ends and gables at both the north and south. It has a ridge stack and is one and a half storeys tall, with unmoulded flush mullion windows.
The west end, facing the road, includes a small two-light window above a large canted bay window with a lead roof, which has a configuration of two, three, and two lights. The south gable displays a roundel date plaque above a gabled stone porch with a depressed-arched entry, and to the right of the porch is a blocked door. The north side of the cottage features a two-light window in the gable and an altered single-storey projection below, which is a 20th-century addition.
Church Cottage is depicted as a school in James Thomson's book "School Houses" from 1842, along with its plan, and is referred to as a 'single cottage' in his unpublished work "History of the Church and Village of Alderton" from 1845. By that time, the larger schoolroom, now known as The Old School House, had already been constructed.
Local climate
Church 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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