Turnpike Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1985. Cottage.
Turnpike Cottage
- WRENN ID
- secret-copper-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Turnpike Cottage, Old Hardenhuish Lane, Chippenham
- OS grid reference
- ST 906 741
- Coordinates
- 51.46627, -2.13619
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Turnpike Cottage is an early 19th-century building constructed from ashlar and coursed rubble stone, featuring an imitation slate roof and an ashlar stack on the west side. The cottage is two storeys high and has a three-sided canted bay made of ashlar, with a hipped roof facing Bristol Road. The bay has a blank centre wall and one range of small-paned casements on each side. The west and east walls are made of rubble stone, with the east wall showcasing a projecting ashlar gabled porch that has a slate roof, bargeboards, and pendant finials. At the rear, there is a wing with flush quoins and a stack at the north end, which includes one range of small-paned casements on the east side.
Local climate
Turnpike Cottage 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 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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