Avenue Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1978. Residential building. 3 related planning applications.
Avenue Cottage
- WRENN ID
- waning-remnant-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1978
- Type
- Residential building
- Address
- Avenue Cottage, 8, the Close, Warminster, BA12 9AL
- OS grid reference
- ST 873 452
- Coordinates
- 51.20666, -2.18211
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Avenue Cottage is an early 19th-century building located on the west side of The Close in Warminster. It is constructed from small ashlar blocks arranged in uneven courses and features a tiled roof with gabled end chimneys. The cottage has two storeys and is adorned with glazing bar sash windows, with three on the first floor and two single hung on the ground floor. The central entrance consists of a six-panel door, with the upper four panels being glazed, and is topped by a modern wrought iron hood. To the left of the main structure is a former stable that has been extended to one and a half storeys, featuring a pointed doorway made of brickwork.
Local climate
Avenue Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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 2021
- 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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