Whithy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 November 1987. House.

Whithy Cottage

WRENN ID
lone-trefoil-burdock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 November 1987
Type
House
Address
Whithy Cottage, Hilmarton
OS grid reference
SU 006 766
Coordinates
51.48877, -1.99223
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Whithy Cottage is a 17th-century house featuring a timber frame and painted rubble stone with a thatched roof and end stacks. It has one and a half storeys and is of large scale. The exterior displays exposed square framing with angle braces, except for the east end bay, which is made of rubble stone. The framing on the west end wall has 20th-century planking overlaid.

The cottage has a rubble stone plinth and 20th-century leaded windows. The front includes a small triple casement window under an eyebrow to the left, a ground floor triple casement, and thatch extending down over a 20th-century verandah supported by timber posts. There is a plank door and a 20th-century 1:5:1-light bay window, with a dormer in the roof above. To the right, there is another eyebrow with a triple casement window and a ground floor triple casement. The stone end bay has a pair of casement windows on each floor, with the upper window set in an eyebrow. The southeast corner is made of brick.

At the rear, there are three eyebrows with triple casements and three ground floor triple casements. Inside, there is a large fireplace with a timber lintel at the west end and chamfered and stopped beams.

Local climate

Whithy Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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