April Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1960. Cottage.
April Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silver-newel-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 1960
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- April Cottage, 21, High Street, Downton
- OS grid reference
- SU 181 215
- Coordinates
- 50.99284, -1.74219
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
April Cottage is a pair of cottages that have been combined into one, dating from the 17th century with 18th century rebuilding of the front. The building features painted Flemish bond brick and a thatched roof with a brick stack on the left side. It is one storey and has an attic, with three windows. There is a 20th century door on the right, flanked by two 12-pane sash windows and one 2-light casement window, while a door on the left is blocked. The window openings have segmental heads. A two-brick plat band is present on the first floor of the left part. The cottage has three 2-light casements in eyebrow dormers. A Sun Insurance disc is located above the front door. The rear wall displays some exposed timber-framing. Inside, there is a timber-framed partition, a chamfered beam with run-out stops, an 18th century open fireplace with a reused chamfered lintel, and the roof contains some reused smoke-blackened timbers.
Local climate
April Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
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