Penny Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 February 1988. House.
Penny Cottage
- WRENN ID
- eternal-casement-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 February 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Penny Cottage, the Street, Grittleton
- OS grid reference
- ST 861 801
- Coordinates
- 51.52017, -2.20107
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Penny Cottage is a house from the early 19th century, likely built on an earlier structure. It is constructed of rubble stone and features a stone slate roof with a stack at the east end. The building has two storeys. The right side of the house is double-fronted, featuring two 2-light unmoulded mullion windows and a central door that has been glazed. The cross wing on the left has been refronted in squared rubble and includes similar 2-light windows on each floor, with a door in a flush surround to the right. The north gable of the cross wing is half-hipped.
Local climate
Penny 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 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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