Fox Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1985. Cottage.
Fox Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stark-keep-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Fox Cottage, 66, Ansty
- OS grid reference
- ST 955 267
- Coordinates
- 51.04029, -2.06533
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fox Cottage is a row of three attached cottages, now functioning as one house, dating from the late 17th century. The building is constructed of dressed limestone with a thatched roof and features brick and limestone stacks. It is one storey high with an attic and has four windows.
No 66 has a glazed door, No 67 features a glazed door set in a stone chamfered case, and No 68 has a planked door in a beaded case, all sheltered by thatched porches. The windows include 20th-century casements and one two-light chamfered recessed mullioned window to the left. The attic contains three three-light and one one-light casement windows in four eyebrow dormers. The left side of the building has 20th-century casements, while the rear includes a 20th-century extension to No 66 and 20th-century casements for Nos 67 and 68.
Inside No 66, there is an open fireplace with a chamfered timber lintel resting on stone jambs. No 68 features chamfered beams with step and run-out stops.
Local climate
Fox 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 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more 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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