Alma Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1987. Cottage.
Alma Cottage
- WRENN ID
- waiting-window-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Alma Cottage, 1, Bell Hill, Seend
- OS grid reference
- ST 940 608
- Coordinates
- 51.347, -2.08752
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Alma Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located in Seend on Bell Hill. It is constructed of rubble stone and features a stone slate roof with end stacks and a pebbledashed south end wall. The cottage is one and a half storeys tall and has a six-panel door. To the left of the door is a six-pane window, which was formerly a door, with brick jambs. To the right, there is a four-light timber-mullion window, and above it, an eaves hipped dormer. The north end of the cottage has a lean-to with a hipped roof. At the front, there is a projecting pantiled outbuilding that is now used as a garage. The rear wall includes a four-light timber-mullion window with a cambered brick head. Inside, there is a beam dated 1651, and historical deeds from 1649 and 1662 indicate that the house was owned by the Usher family and was known as Shaell's House.
Local climate
Alma 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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