Flood Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1985. A C19 Cottage.
Flood Cottages
- WRENN ID
- tall-doorway-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Flood Cottages, 3 and 4, Orcheston
- OS grid reference
- SU 058 452
- Coordinates
- 51.20667, -1.91707
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Flood Cottages is a pair of attached cottages built in 1842, located in Orcheston, Orcheston St. Mary. They are constructed of cob with a Welsh slate roof and feature an axial brick stack. The cottages are two stories high with a four-window front. Each cottage has half-glazed doors on the left and right, flanked by two 20th-century casements and two 2-light 19th-century casements. On the first floor, there are two 20th-century casements and two 2-light 19th-century casements. At the rear, there is a continuous original lean-to on the ground floor, while the first floor has two 2-light casements. The returns of the cottages are windowless and have wavy bargeboards on the gables. A large cast-iron plaque on the front wall commemorates the construction of the cottages in 1842, following The Great Flood of 1841. This pair is one of two in Orcheston; the others are located in Tilshead and Shrewton, though the latter are not sufficiently unaltered to be listed.
Local climate
Flood Cottages receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings