Moonrakers is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1986. Cottage.

Moonrakers

WRENN ID
sharp-portal-onyx
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 July 1986
Type
Cottage
Address
Moonrakers, 53 Church Street, Great Bedwyn
OS grid reference
SU 275 638
Coordinates
51.37316, -1.60599
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Moonrakers is a cottage dating from the 17th to early 18th century. It is timber framed with brick noggings and features a single storey with an attic, consisting of two bays. Originally, the layout included a kitchen on the left and a parlour on the right. The door to the kitchen has been replaced with a gable door in a 20th-century wooden porch. The cottage has leaded casement windows and external stacks on both gables. The roof is a queen strut clasped purlin type, with thatch extending over one dormer and a half-hipped design. There is a rear extension with a tiled roof, clad in waney boarding.

Local climate

Moonrakers receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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