The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ragged-cornice-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1960
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, the Green, Biddestone & Slaughterford, SN14 7DG
- OS grid reference
- ST 863 735
- Coordinates
- 51.46073, -2.19725
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house built in the mid-18th century, constructed from squared rubble stone and topped with a stone tiled roof. It features a coped east gable with an end wall stack. The building is two stories high and has a three-window range. The upper windows are two-light bead-moulded mullion windows, which have small panes and sash opening lights. There is a string course and a central bead-moulded stone doorcase with a hood supported by brackets, flanked by sash windows in raised bead-moulded surrounds. The lower west end has an ashlar extension with a stone tiled roof and a west end stack, containing one 20th-century metal window on each floor. Additionally, there is a 20th-century garage attached to the west wall.
Local climate
The Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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