Cress Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1987. A C18 Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Cress Cottage
- WRENN ID
- solemn-hearth-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Cress Cottage, Sherrington, BA12 0SN
- OS grid reference
- ST 959 391
- Coordinates
- 51.15127, -2.05868
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cress Cottage is an 18th-century detached cottage located in Sherrington village. The exterior is dressed limestone with a thatched roof, featuring a brick stack to the left gable end and another to the right of centre. The cottage is single-storey with an attic, and has two windows visible from the front. A central planked door is sheltered by a wooden hood, with a three-light casement window on either side. Two eyebrow dormers, each containing a three-light casement, are visible on the roof. A single-storey addition is present on the right side, with a three-light top-hung casement window. A 20th-century lean-to extension is also attached. The left return side shows a large external brick stack, with a section of the wall constructed from chalk blocks; an earlier, lower roofline is visible. A rear outshut includes a 20th-century dormer. Inside, a blocked open fireplace with a bread oven can be found.
Local climate
Cress Cottage 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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