April Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
April Cottage
- WRENN ID
- other-chamber-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1960
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- April Cottage, the Hill, Castle Combe, SN14 7HH
- OS grid reference
- ST 845 775
- Coordinates
- 51.49694, -2.22452
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
April Cottage is an early 18th-century cottage located on the west side of Castle Combe. It is constructed of rough rendered rubble stone with a thatched roof and end wall stacks. The cottage is one storey high with an attic. The gabled front features an upper oval light, a three-light cyma-moulded recessed mullion window to the attic with a hood, and two similar two-light ground floor windows. A door is positioned to the left. A higher two-light window with a hoodmould is present on the north end wall. The windows have leaded lights. 20th-century extensions have been added to the left and right sides of the original structure.
Local climate
April 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1998
- 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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