Forsters Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1988. A Victorian Cottage.
Forsters Cottage
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-rubblework-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Forsters Cottage, Church Street, Holt
- OS grid reference
- ST 860 615
- Coordinates
- 51.35294, -2.2012
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Forsters Cottage is a detached cottage that was originally built as a national school in 1834 and converted in the 1980s. The building is constructed of limestone ashlar and features an artificial stone slate roof with an ashlar stack, which formerly supported a bellcote. It has an L-plan layout and is a single-storey structure with six windows.
The central gabled porch has a Tudor-arched doorway that includes a hoodmould and an eight-panel fielded door. On either side of the porch, there are three square-headed, two-light windows with cusped lights and hoodmoulds. The right and left returns of the building each have a tall square-headed, two-light window with cusped lights and hoodmoulds. The rear wing features gabled half-dormers that contain two-light, square-headed Perpendicular-style windows with hoodmoulds, along with quatrefoiled lozenges above the windows. This cottage is a good example of a little altered village school, showcasing fine architectural details.
Local climate
Forsters 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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