The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1978. Cottage.

The Cottage

WRENN ID
lone-mortar-ochre
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 June 1978
Type
Cottage
Address
The Cottage, 70, Marshfield Road, Chippenham
OS grid reference
ST 914 737
Coordinates
51.46282, -2.12397
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cottage is a Grade II listed building located on Marshfield Road in Chippenham. It dates back to the early 18th century and is attached to the rear of No. 68. The structure is built of painted limestone rubble with freestone quoins and dressings, topped with a double-Roman tile roof featuring a central brick ridge stack. The cottage has a two-unit plan and includes a 20th-century rear extension.

The exterior is two storeys high and has a one-window range. It features cyma-moulded stone mullions for the two-light windows, which have 20th-century leaded glazing. The ground floor of the gabled left return has a three-light window. To the left of the entrance is a 20th-century planked door set within a cyma-moulded architrave, topped by a moulded hood supported on brackets.

The interior has not been inspected. Historically, before 1784, this building was part of the Horse and Jockey Inn.

Local climate

The Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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