Long Cottage the Old Long House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1977. Cottage.
Long Cottage the Old Long House
- WRENN ID
- lost-rotunda-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1977
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Long Cottage the Old Long House, 28, Park Place, Ashton Keynes
- OS grid reference
- SU 047 940
- Coordinates
- 51.64487, -1.93325
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Long House and Long Cottage are two attached cottages built in 1765. They are constructed from coursed limestone rubble and topped with a stone slate roof. The buildings are two stories high with an attic, featuring five window bays on the first floor and four on the ground floor. The cottages have a panelled door, and the windows are 19th-century timber casements, with four-pane sashes on the gable end. Each cottage has a single-storey forward extension. There are gable stacks and a stack on the party wall, which has a datestone inscribed with the initials TMC and the year 1765.
Long Cottage has a 20th-century front range, while the Old Long House includes a two-storey forward extension. Originally a furze house, the Old Long House had become a blacksmith's shop by 1858 and was raised to two storeys in rat-trap bond in 1861 for use as a workshop. The openings facing the road have lintels that are now blocked. The initials on the datestone belong to Richard Carter, who incorporated a bakehouse within the building. In front of the cottages, there is a flagstone wall along the road.
Local climate
Long Cottage the Old Long House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% 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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