Former Womens Institute Tabernacle Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1976. Former institute.
Former Womens Institute Tabernacle Cottages
- WRENN ID
- winding-corridor-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1976
- Type
- Former institute
- Address
- Former Womens Institute Tabernacle Cottages, 1, Church Street, Trowbridge, BA14 8DZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 855 581
- Coordinates
- 51.32231, -2.20879
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Women's Institute Tabernacle Cottages, located at No 25 Church Street, was built in 1871. This two-storey Gothic-style lodge features a symmetrical gabled design and is situated to the east of the gate screen to the Tabernacle. Constructed from dressed stone, it has a large three-light window on the first floor, along with an oculus on the south side.
On the ground floor, there is a through passage door with a pointed arch to the right. Notable details include two rainwater pipe heads dated 18 AD 71, which have animal head spouts set into the parapet. A two-storey, three-light square bay is positioned at the southwest angle, featuring traceried windows and trefoil panels below the first floor.
The first floor of the west front, which is No 1 Tabernacle Cottages, slightly projects on a modillion string course. It has a gabled break to the right with an entrance and a gable that includes shaped kneelers above a half-dormer with two lancet windows to the left. This is situated above a wide pointed relieving arch that contains a plain stepped lancet triplet on the ground floor. The building is topped with a concrete pantile roof and has two stone octagonal shaft chimneys.
The former Sunday School, along with the former 'Institute' to the east, and the Tabernacle United Reformed Church, create a group with Nos 24 to 26 (consecutive) and 2 and 3 Tabernacle Cottages.
Local climate
Former Womens Institute Tabernacle Cottages receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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