The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1962. House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tired-tower-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1962
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, Chirton
- OS grid reference
- SU 066 573
- Coordinates
- 51.31508, -1.90583
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage, formerly known as Conock Cottage, is a house dating from the early 18th century. It is constructed of diaper brick with raised quoins and a platband, and the front elevation was rendered around 1820. The building features a slate roof and stands two storeys tall with an attic, comprising five window bays and a central stair hall plan, along with a later lean-to at the rear.
The entrance includes a six-panelled door set within a porch that has a swept felt roof. The windows are twelve-paned sashes, with those on the ground floor fitted with 20th-century louvred shutters. The eaves are boxed, and the roof is hipped, featuring two small gabled dormers. There are two brick stacks on the rear wall, and blind windows are present on the gable end. Additionally, a stone from the garden, displaying the arms of Ernle impaling Hungerford, is now mounted above the door.
Local climate
The 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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