Stable Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1985. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.

Stable Cottage

WRENN ID
rough-jade-cream
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 July 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Stable Cottage, Wick Lane, Downton, SP5 3NH
OS grid reference
SU 164 215
Coordinates
50.9935, -1.76672
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Stable Cottage is a detached cottage dating from the 16th century. It features square-panelled timber-framing with brick nogging and has a half-hipped tiled roof with a brick stack. The building has a baffle-entry design and consists of three bays, standing one storey high with an attic. The front has a 20th-century door to the right, with a three-light and a two-light casement window to the left, and a single casement window to the right. There is a gabled dormer in the roof with a three-light casement.

On the left side, there is one two-light casement and two one-light casements in the attic. The right side features one two-light casement on the ground floor and in the attic. The rear has 20th-century casements and a single-storey extension with a tiled roof and a dormer. Inside, there is a chamfered beam with ogee stops in the centre bay. The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments recorded smoke-blackened roof timbers, indicating that the cottage was formerly open to the roof, with a first floor inserted in the 17th century.

Local climate

Stable Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% 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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