The Horseshoes is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. House. 1 related planning application.
The Horseshoes
- WRENN ID
- last-finial-violet
- 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 Horseshoes, 1 and 2, Grittleton, SN14 7LD
- OS grid reference
- ST 868 786
- Coordinates
- 51.5064, -2.19016
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Horseshoes is a pair of houses dating from the 17th century, with extensions added in the 18th century. They are constructed of rubble stone and feature a stone slate roof, along with ashlar end-wall and ridge stacks. The gables are coped, and the buildings rise two storeys with an attic that includes two hipped dormers.
The front facade has a four-window range. The right side, which is from the 17th century, showcases ovolo-moulded mullion windows with hoodmoulds. On the ground floor, there is a four-light window with a king-mullion and relieving arch, while the first floor has a three-light window. To the left, there is a projecting coped gabled bay with a two-light window above and a plank door with a timber lintel below. The left side features a two-window range of 18th-century style, with two-light cyma-moulded flush mullion windows and dripmoulds over the ground floor windows.
At the lower west end, there is an addition with a west stack. The rear of the building has a three-light ovolo-moulded window on each floor in the 17th-century section, along with a two-window range of cyma-moulded flush mullion windows and a central door to the right. The 17th-century section also includes a moulded Tudor-arched fireplace located at the ground floor west end.
Local climate
The Horseshoes 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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