The Old Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. A C17 Cottage.
The Old Cottage
- WRENN ID
- unlit-porch-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Old Cottage, Mount Lane, Barford St. Martin
- OS grid reference
- SU 055 316
- Coordinates
- 51.08371, -1.92169
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage is a detached cottage dating from the 17th century. It is constructed of painted dressed limestone and features a thatched roof with a half hip to the left and a hip to the right, along with an axial brick stack. The building has a baffle entry plan and is a single storey with an attic, containing two windows. The entrance is a planked door located to the left of centre, sheltered by a thatched porch supported by posts. To the left of the door is a three-light casement window, while to the right are a large 19th-century two-light casement and a smaller two-light casement. The cottage also has two eyebrow dormers, one with a two-light casement and the other with a three-light casement. The left side of the cottage features a three-light casement and a two-light casement in a blocked doorway, along with two two-light casements on the first floor. At the rear, there are 20th-century extensions, one two-storey and one single-storey. The interior was not accessible during the survey in February 1986, but it is said to include an open fireplace and chamfered beams.
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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