The Old Wool House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. House. 1 related planning application.
The Old Wool House
- WRENN ID
- winding-gallery-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1960
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old Wool House, the Green, Biddestone & Slaughterford, SN14 7DG
- OS grid reference
- ST 864 735
- Coordinates
- 51.46082, -2.197
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Wool House is a house from the early 19th century, constructed of ashlar stone with a stone-tiled mansard roof. It features a coped gable at the east end and a stack on the east end wall. The building is two storeys high with an attic and has one window range. There is a moulded eaves cornice. The attic has a pair of casement windows, while the first floor has a 12-pane sash window. Below, there is a platband and a large 20th-century bay window with a tripartite sash consisting of 8/16/8 panes, located to the right of a fielded 7-panel door set in a stone doorcase, which is topped with a hood supported by brackets.
Local climate
The Old Wool House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- 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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