Townsend Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1988. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Townsend Cottage
- WRENN ID
- swift-buttress-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Townsend Cottage, 5, Urchfont, SN10 4RR
- OS grid reference
- SU 044 570
- Coordinates
- 51.31253, -1.93808
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Townsend Cottage is a cottage from the 17th or 18th century that incorporates the gable of an earlier cottage from the 15th or 16th century. It features brick on stone sills and a thatched roof. The building is two storeys high and consists of a single bay, which is the end bay of a row of five cottages. The entrance is located at the rear, accessed through a pantiled lean-to on the gable end. The cottage has 20th-century metal windows, while the upper floor retains timber casements. An exposed full cruck frame is embedded in the gable wall, showcasing a threaded diagonal ridge apex and halved-in collar, with some timber framing visible at the rear. There is a stack in the gable wall. Inside, the cottage features chamfered cross beams with check and scoop stops, and a cambered beam with mortices that forms trimming to the stack. The cruck frame belongs to a cottage that was built against the gable, which is now demolished.
Local climate
Townsend Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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