42 is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
42
- WRENN ID
- sunken-soffit-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 42, Broad Chalke, SP5 5ED
- OS grid reference
- SU 057 254
- Coordinates
- 51.02833, -1.91952
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 42 is a detached cottage dating from the late 17th century. It is constructed from dressed limestone and features a thatched roof with gable and axial brick stacks. The cottage has a baffle entry and a three-cell plan, with a single storey and attic, and three windows across the front.
The entrance is a six-panelled door located to the left of the center, sheltered by a thatched porch. To the left of the door is a two-light casement window, while to the right are two three-light recessed chamfered mullioned casements. In the attic, there is one two-light window in an eyebrow dormer and two three-light casements to the right.
The left side of the cottage has a 20th-century planked door and steel casements, while the right side features a 20th-century door and a three-light casement on the first floor. The rear includes two steel casements, two single-light windows, and one two-light wooden casement. The attic floor has three dormers with single-light, four-light, and two-light casements.
Inside, the cottage has an open fireplace with a chamfered lintel set on stone jambs and features chamfered beams.
Local climate
42 receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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 1998
- 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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