Bounds Close is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1985. Cottage.
Bounds Close
- WRENN ID
- pale-fireplace-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Bounds Close, Duck Street, Ebbesborne Wake
- OS grid reference
- ST 991 242
- Coordinates
- 51.01747, -2.01322
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bounds Close is a detached cottage dating from the early 17th century. It is constructed of dressed limestone and features a half-hipped thatched roof with brick and stone stacks. The building has an L-plan layout with its gable end facing the road. It is a single storey with an attic and has two windows.
The front of the cottage has a 20th-century planked door at the center, a large stone lateral stack with offsets to the left, and a two-light casement window to the right. There are also two eyebrow dormers in the attic, each with two-light casements. The left side of the building, which is the gable end facing the road, has two two-light casements, with the left one set in a blocked doorway. There is one two-light casement in the attic and a coped verge. The rear of the cottage features a three-light casement on the ground floor and a two-light casement in the attic, along with a small light that illuminates the stairs. A projecting wing to the left of the rear has two-light casements on both the ground floor and the attic. The right side of the building also has two-light casements.
Inside, the cottage has deeply chamfered beams with stepped stops, open fireplaces with chamfered timber lintels that have rounded corners on chamfered stone jambs. It is said to have smoke-blackened roof timbers, suggesting that it was originally an open building before being floored in the 17th century.
Local climate
Bounds Close receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
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