Foundry Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1985. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Foundry Cottage
- WRENN ID
- vacant-gravel-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Foundry Cottage, 39, Lottage Road, Aldbourne, SN8 2EB
- OS grid reference
- SU 265 759
- Coordinates
- 51.48215, -1.61853
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Foundry Cottage is a late 17th-century cottage located on the west side of Lottage Road in Aldbourne. It is constructed of whitewashed sarsen rubble with a tiled roof. The cottage is a one-story and attic building with two bays, oriented with its gable facing the street. It has timber casement windows and horizontal sliding sash windows. A simple boarded porch shelters the door which is situated between the bays. The eaves are detailed with brick dentil moulding. The roof is half-hipped on the right side and has a gable stack on the left, as well as one dormer window. Rear lean-to additions are present.
Local climate
Foundry Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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