Turnpike Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1987. House.

Turnpike Cottage

WRENN ID
scattered-gravel-woodpecker
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 April 1987
Type
House
Address
Turnpike Cottage, Inmarsh Lane, Seend
OS grid reference
ST 942 602
Coordinates
51.34168, -2.08398
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Turnpike Cottage is a house built in the late 18th century. It is constructed of red brick and features a stone slate roof that is half-hipped at the east end, with a stack at the west end. The building is two stories high and has a two-window range on the north front, which includes two-light flush cyma-moulded stone mullion windows. There is a door at the west end set in a flush moulded surround. On the south side, there is one similar two-light window on each floor. The east side of the cottage has extensive 20th-century additions.

Local climate

Turnpike Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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