Well Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1960. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Well Cottage
- WRENN ID
- third-chimney-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 1960
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Well Cottage, 16, the Borough, Downton, SP5 3ND
- OS grid reference
- SU 171 213
- Coordinates
- 50.99164, -1.75669
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Well Cottage is a late 17th-century cottage that is part of a row of buildings. It features a timber-framed and brick construction with a thatched roof and a brick stack on the right side. The cottage has one storey and an attic, with two windows visible from the front. There is a 20th-century wooden door, and the ground floor has two 2-light casement windows, along with eyebrow dormers in the attic. At the rear, there is a projecting wing that includes 20th-century casement windows. The interior was not accessible during the survey conducted in December 1984.
Local climate
Well 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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