Dragon Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1960. Cottage.
Dragon Cottage
- WRENN ID
- winding-ember-dale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 1960
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Dragon Cottage, Grovely Road, Barford St. Martin
- OS grid reference
- SU 057 314
- Coordinates
- 51.08212, -1.91992
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Dragon Cottage is a Grade II listed building that consists of two cottages now combined into one. It dates back to the 18th century, with rebuilding dates noted on the datestone at the front, indicating HP/1831 and KW/1972. The structure is built of dressed limestone, brick, and flint, topped with a thatched roof featuring gable end brick stacks.
The cottage is two storeys high and has three windows across the front. The central entrance features a 20th-century planked door set in a gabled porch, flanked by a blocked doorway and a three-light casement window on either side. On the first floor, there are three-light casement windows on either side of a two-light casement window. The left side of the building is windowless. The rear wall has an obtuse angle and includes three-light and two-light casement windows on both the ground and first floors.
Inside, the cottage features an open fireplace with a chamfered lintel supported by brick jambs, timber-framed partitions, and chamfered beams.
Local climate
Dragon 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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