Devon Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 November 1962. Cottage.
Devon Cottage
- WRENN ID
- blind-footing-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 November 1962
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Devon Cottage, 16, Leigh Road, Holt
- OS grid reference
- ST 857 616
- Coordinates
- 51.3537, -2.20554
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Devon Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage located in a row of similar buildings. It is constructed of English bond brick and features a Welsh slate roof with a stone stack and a coped verge on the right side. The cottage is two stories tall and has three windows. The entrance consists of a four-panelled door set in a chamfered surround, with a boarded hood supported by carved wooden brackets to the left. To the right of the door, there are two 12-pane sash windows. The first floor has three sash windows, all framed by plain stone architraves.
Local climate
Devon Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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