Turnpike Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1978. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Turnpike Cottage
- WRENN ID
- spare-lintel-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1978
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Turnpike Cottage, Smallbrook Road, Warminster, BA12 9PA
- OS grid reference
- ST 877 440
- Coordinates
- 51.19515, -2.17701
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Turnpike Cottage is a building from the 18th century or early 19th century, designed in a picturesque style. It has a single storey and an 'L' shaped plan, featuring an octagonal toll house projection on the west side. The structure is made of local rubble with brick quoins used for the dressings. The roofs are thatched, with the octagonal section having flat eaves and scalloped fringe decoration, while the adjacent gable end displays a scalloped bargeboard. There are two light casement windows with drip moulds, one on each gable end, and three on the toll house projection, although one of these is blocked. The cottage has two diagonal chimney stacks located in the centre. The doorway features a beaded door and is situated in the thatched link section between the two parts of the cottage. Additionally, there is a later extension from the early 20th century, which is a brick, one and a half storey structure with four windows on the east side, also thatched.
Local climate
Turnpike Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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