Four Winds is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1988. Cottage.
Four Winds
- WRENN ID
- woven-step-snow
- 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
- Four Winds, 4, A342, Easterton
- OS grid reference
- SU 024 556
- Coordinates
- 51.29986, -1.96587
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Four Winds is a 17th-century cottage located on the south side of the A342 in Easterton. It features a timber frame with colourwashed brick noggings set on brick and stone sills, topped by a slated roof. The gable end is pebbledashed. The cottage is single storey with an attic, consisting of two bays and a framed lean-to at the east end, which extends beyond a gable stack. The main living room is heated, and there is an inner room with a later stack, along with a kitchen located in the lean-to. The framing consists of two panels high with long corner braces. The entrance has been relocated to a 20th-century extension at the rear. The cottage has timber casement windows and one flush dormer on the front. A stone-built gable stack features a brick flue. Inside, there is an open fireplace, and the spine beams are all boxed in.
Local climate
Four Winds receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 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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