Quince Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1988. A C17 Cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Quince Cottage
- WRENN ID
- cold-marble-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Quince Cottage, 3, Dark Lane North, Steeple Ashton, BA14 6EY
- OS grid reference
- ST 907 568
- Coordinates
- 51.31091, -2.1335
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Quince Cottage is a detached cottage dating to around 1600. It is constructed with a timber frame and painted brick nogging, and has a half-hipped roof covered in Bridgwater tiles, with a brick stack on the left side. The cottage is single-storey with an attic, and has one window facing the front. A 20th-century entrance has been added to the left return, along with a 20th-century bow window on the right. The front of the cottage features a single-light casement window on the ground floor and a 2-light attic casement window. The right return has 2-light casement windows on both the ground and first floors. The rear of the cottage includes a lean-to extension and three 20th-century dormers, as well as a brick stack. The timber framing indicates that the right-hand bay of the cottage is a late 17th-century addition to what was originally a single-room cottage.
Local climate
Quince Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 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 — 2 transactions since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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