Keepers Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. Cottage.

Keepers Cottage

WRENN ID
seventh-gable-soot
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 December 1986
Type
Cottage
Address
Keepers Cottage, Barford St. Martin
OS grid reference
SU 041 309
Coordinates
51.07784, -1.9422
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Keepers Cottage is a semi-detached cottage dating from the early 18th century. It is built of dressed limestone and features a tiled roof with a half-hip on the right and a coped verge on the left. The cottage has an axial brick stack and a stone stack on the left side. The layout follows a baffle-entry plan and is two stories tall with five windows.

The central entrance consists of a six-panelled door set within a moulded architrave, flanked by a five-light recessed chamfered mullioned casement, which was originally two 2-light mullioned casements on either side. On the first floor, there are five 2-light recessed chamfered mullioned casements, all with leaded glass. The left side of the cottage features a 2-light mullioned casement on the first floor and a single recessed chamfered light in the attic. The rear and interior were not accessible during the survey in February 1986, but it is noted that the interior is said to have beams.

Local climate

Keepers Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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