Caretakers Cottage, Chippenham Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1978. Cottage.
Caretakers Cottage, Chippenham Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- tall-slate-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1978
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Caretakers Cottage, Chippenham Cemetery, London Road
- OS grid reference
- ST 933 724
- Coordinates
- 51.45069, -2.09711
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Caretaker's cottage at Chippenham Cemetery, built around 1854, is now used as an office. The structure is made of squared and coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and ridge stacks, topped with a slate roof. It has a T-shaped plan with a lean-to at the rear and is designed in the Gothic Revival style.
The cottage is a single-story building with a two-window range and features a gabled roof similar to the nearby cemetery chapels, characterized by steep pitches and coped gable ends. The entrance is located on the left side. To the left, there is a forward-facing gable that includes a small lancet window above a two-light splayed bay with a hipped stone roof and quatrefoils in the diagonally square tracery. On the right side, there is a two-light window with trefoil heads.
A prominent heavy stack is positioned on the central ridge, which is offset and features two octagonal shafts with moulded tops. A similar single-shafted stack is located at the rear. The rear right gable contains a quatrefoil in an oculus above a large shallow pointed-arched stone-mullioned three-light window. Inside, the cottage has been altered, but original fireplaces are reported to remain behind boarding.
Local climate
Caretakers Cottage, Chippenham Cemetery receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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