Loaf Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1986. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Loaf Cottage
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Loaf Cottage, 2, Devizes Road, Derry Hill & Studley, SN15 2PZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 964 681
- Coordinates
- 51.41274, -2.05287
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Loaf Cottage is an early 19th-century estate cottage situated on Sandy Lane, west of Calne, without Devizes. The cottage is constructed of squared ironstone rubble with a thatched half-hipped roof and a ridge stack. It is built in a picturesque style, featuring flush stone-mullioned windows with leaded lights, likely replacing earlier iron casements.
The front (east) of the cottage has a projecting eyebrow over a two-light upper window and a centrally positioned front door within a 20th-century porch. A three-light window is set within a stone-slate verandah to the left. Flush quoins are present. The north end has a canted bay window with a 1-3-1-light arrangement and a 20th-century window above. A hipped rear wing extends from the north-west corner, also with a 20th-century window. On the south side are a two-light and a three-light window, both with hoodmoulds.
The cottage is depicted on J. Powell’s map of 1763, although it appears to have been built later in its current style. As part of the Sandy Lane cottages, it exemplifies a picturesque estate village.
Local climate
Loaf Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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 — 4 transactions since 2012
- 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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