The Old Post Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1988. Cottage.
The Old Post Cottage
- WRENN ID
- seventh-chapel-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Post Cottage, Church Lane, Figheldean
- OS grid reference
- SU 152 473
- Coordinates
- 51.22529, -1.78252
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Post Cottage is a cottage dating from the 16th or 17th century. It features a timber frame with whitewashed infill and brick laced flint on the gable of the third bay. The cottage has a thatched roof and is single storey with an attic, consisting of three bays. The upper parlour bay is taller and independently framed, while the lower bays are smaller. The framing has three panels high with corner braces. The entrance is located laterally to the upper bay and consists of a boarded door. There are two and three-light windows, along with a square 20th-century bay window on the lowest right end. The upper bay has a flush dormer, and the central bay features a small gabled dormer. A 17th-century brick stack is situated at the junction of the builds, and the roof is half hipped. The interior has not been seen but may be of interest.
Local climate
The Old Post Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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