Smithcombe House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1985. A C18 House. 3 related planning applications.

Smithcombe House

WRENN ID
worn-timber-reed
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 December 1985
Type
House
Address
Smithcombe House, 5, Cuttle Lane, Biddestone & Slaughterford, SN14 7DF
OS grid reference
ST 861 738
Coordinates
51.46344, -2.20014
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Smithcombe House is an early 18th-century house located on Cuttle Lane in Biddestone. It is constructed of squared rubble with a stone tiled roof, featuring coped gables, a saddlestone to the left, and a stack at the right end. The house is two stories high and has a three-window range of bead moulded stone mullion windows, with three 2-light windows on the upper floor and two 3-light windows on the lower floor. A continuous dripcourse runs along the building.

There is a central 20th-century stone porch with a hipped stone tile roof, which replaced a timber porch that also had a hipped roof. To the left of the main house, there is a rubble stone extension that is also two stories tall, with a stone tiled roof and a brick end wall stack on a stone base. This extension features a door and a 2-light mullion window below, with a 20th-century metal window above.

The extension was previously a bakehouse, and it includes a large bread oven that projects outward into an attached 'T'-plan left end extension, which is a single-story shed with wooden doors. At right angles to this is a rubble stone stable with a loft above, which has a door and window below and a plank door above. The roofs of these structures are pantiled. Additionally, there is a timber 20th-century lean-to garage at the left end. The deeds of the property are said to date from 1715.

Local climate

Smithcombe House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 1 transaction since 2011
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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