Lypiatt Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1986. House.
Lypiatt Cottages
- WRENN ID
- mired-gargoyle-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 August 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Lypiatt Cottages, 4, Corsham
- OS grid reference
- ST 867 689
- Coordinates
- 51.41939, -2.19166
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lypiatt Cottages is an 18th-century house constructed of rubble stone with a stone tiled roof. The building consists of two sections. The south range is two stories high and features a south end stack, flush quoins, and recessed ovolo-moulded windows. On the east side, there is an upper three-light window and a two-light window, while the lower section has a three-light window with a hoodmould and a blocked door. The south end includes a blank two-light window with a hoodmould, and the west side has an upper two-light window and a lower three-light window, both with hoodmoulds. The north range is one and a half stories tall, featuring a ridge stack and a stack at the north-east corner. The east side has a door with a timber lintel and a casement window on the ground floor, along with a plain two-light mullion window in the dormer gable above. There is a 19th-century outhouse extension to the north-east. The rear of the building has a dormer gable with a 20th-century casement window and three additional 20th-century casement windows below.
Local climate
Lypiatt Cottages receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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