The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1970. Cottage. 6 related planning applications.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- south-wicket-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 1970
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Cottage, Salisbury Road, Steeple Langford, SP3 4NF
- OS grid reference
- SU 038 374
- Coordinates
- 51.1365, -1.94662
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a building located on Salisbury Road in Steeple Langford, dating from 1788, as indicated by the inscription "S & M / 1788" above the left doorway. Originally part of a row of three cottages, it is now combined with No 17. The structure is built of Flemish bond brick with limestone quoins and features a Roman tiled roof with brick stacks.
The building is two stories high and has six windows, with casements throughout. The Old Cottage, situated on the left, has a 20th-century door and a blocked doorway that now contains a 9-pane fixed window, along with two 2-light and two single casements. There is a three-brick plat band with a dentilled lower course at the first floor, which includes a 3-light window, two 2-light windows, and a 3-light casement. The stack on the left has a toothed band at the capping.
No 17 features a 20th-century porch and has 2-light casements on both the ground and first floors. The right return of the building is made of chequered flint and limestone, with a moulded elliptically-arched attic light that is likely reset. The rear of the building also has 2-light casements. The interior of No 17 includes a chamfered beam and an open fireplace with a chamfered lintel on brick jambs. The interior of The Old Cottage was not accessible during the survey conducted in September 1985.
Local climate
The Old 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- 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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