Wick Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1985. Cottage.
Wick Cottage
- WRENN ID
- inner-bronze-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Wick Cottage, Breamore Road, Downton
- OS grid reference
- SU 170 212
- Coordinates
- 50.99076, -1.7579
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wick Cottage is an early 18th-century cottage located at the end of a row on Breamore Road in Downton. It is timber-framed with a thatched roof and features a brick stack on the right side. The cottage is single-storey with an attic and has one window. There is a door located in a 20th-century porch, with a two-light casement window to the left and another two-light casement in the attic. The right side of the cottage is constructed in Flemish bond brick and also has a two-light casement window. At the rear, there is a 20th-century kitchen extension. Inside, the cottage includes chamfered beams with convex stops, a chamfered lintel above an open fireplace, and winding stairs located on the east side of the fireplace.
Local climate
Wick Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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