Chestnut Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1985. House. 1 related planning application.

Chestnut Cottage

WRENN ID
tilted-pewter-linden
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 December 1985
Type
House
Address
Chestnut Cottage, North Wraxall Village, SN14 7AD
OS grid reference
ST 817 749
Coordinates
51.47343, -2.26366
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Chestnut Cottage is a house dating from the mid-18th century, constructed of ashlar and coursed rubble stone, topped with a stone tiled valley roof featuring coped gables and four end wall stacks. The building is two storeys high and has a double depth plan. It features a three-window range of two-light ovolo-moulded mullion windows with dripstones, along with a central door that is accessed through a later porch. The south front includes a gabled timber porch, while the north front has a 20th-century trellis porch.

Local climate

Chestnut Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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