Spring Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1985. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Spring Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-hammer-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Spring Cottage, Wylye Road, Teffont, SP3 5RA
- OS grid reference
- ST 988 326
- Coordinates
- 51.09305, -2.01842
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Spring Cottage is a detached cottage dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, with the left bay being a 17th-century addition. It is constructed of rubble stone and features a thatched roof with brick stacks, forming a T-plan. The cottage is single-storey with an attic and has three windows. There is a planked door located to the left of center, along with two 2-light and two 3-light casement windows. In the attic, there is one 3-light casement set below the raised eaves of the left bay, and two full dormers with coped verges on the right; one dormer contains a 3-light recessed chamfered mullioned window, while the other has a 3-light casement. The roof has a coped verge on the right side. The left return features a blocked chamfered light, and the rear has both 3-light and 2-light casements, along with a 20th-century dormer in the attic. The rear wing to the right includes 2-light and 3-light casements.
Inside, there are two open fireplaces; the northern fireplace has a chamfered lintel with rounded corners on stone jambs, while the southern fireplace has a renewed lintel. The interior also boasts deeply chamfered beams with stepped stops and planked doors with strap hinges. The rear wall, now part of the wing, has a blocked 3-light wooden mullioned window. On the first floor, there is a chamfered wooden doorcase with stops. The four-bay roof features one tier of heavy through purlins, with the center bay being charred and smoke-blackened, indicating that the cottage was originally open to the roof, likely in the 16th century, with the floor being inserted in the 17th century.
Local climate
Spring Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% 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, fewer than 51% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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