Shepherds Close Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1985. Cottage.
Shepherds Close Cottage
- WRENN ID
- far-barrel-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Shepherds Close Cottage, Homington Road, Coombe Bissett
- OS grid reference
- SU 111 261
- Coordinates
- 51.03437, -1.8426
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shepherds Close Cottage is a detached cottage dating from the early 18th century. It is constructed of Flemish bond brick, with some limestone and flint, and features a thatched roof with a brick chimney. The cottage is single-storey with an attic and has one window. There is a half-glazed door set in a thatched porch, a three-light casement window to the right on the ground floor, and a small two-light casement window in an eyebrow dormer in the attic. The left side of the cottage has a two-light metal casement window on the ground floor and a three-light metal casement window in the attic. At the rear, there is a lean-to extension from the 19th century. Inside, the cottage includes a chamfered ceiling beam with convex stops, an open fireplace featuring a cambered chamfered bressumer with ogee stops, and winding stairs leading to a planked door on the south side of the fireplace.
Local climate
Shepherds Close 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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