Greystone Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 March 1960. A Post-Medieval Cottage.
Greystone Cottage
- WRENN ID
- late-eave-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 March 1960
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Address
- Greystone Cottage, Duck Street, Steeple Langford
- OS grid reference
- SU 037 373
- Coordinates
- 51.13551, -1.94815
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Greystone Cottage is a detached cottage located in Steeple Langford, dated 1635 according to the datestone on the attic dormer. The building is constructed from limestone rubble stone and features a thatched roof with a hip to the left and a coped verge to the right, along with gable end brick stacks. It is a single storey with an attic and has three windows.
The front facade includes a 20th-century three-light mullioned casement window to the left, a central two-light hollow-chamfered mullioned casement with a hoodmould, a blocked doorway, and a three-light hollow-chamfered mullioned casement with a hoodmould to the right. The full attic dormer has a four-light hollow-chamfered mullioned casement with a hoodmould, a small blocked light, and a moulded tablet with relief lettering indicating the date, topped with a coped verge and a small ball finial.
On the right side, there is a single casement window on the ground floor and a two-light mullioned casement in the attic. The left side features a 20th-century casement window. The rear of the cottage serves as the entrance front and includes a two-light hollow-chamfered mullioned casement to the left of a planked door with a thatched canopy, a two-light mullioned casement, and a second planked door to the right. The attic floor has a two-light eyebrow dormer to the right and a single light window for the stairs.
Inside, there are two open fireplaces; the northern one has a chamfered stone lintel on stone jambs, while the southern fireplace features a chamfered timber lintel on stone jambs. The beams are chamfered, with the northern beam displaying a small roll moulding and the southern beam having ogee stops. The first floor includes a small stone Tudor-arched fireplace. Attached to the rear of the cottage is a square rubble stone outhouse with a hipped thatched roof, a planked door, and a two-light casement window.
Local climate
Greystone 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
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