Brook Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. A Post-medieval Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Brook Cottage
- WRENN ID
- last-arch-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1960
- Type
- Cottage
- Period
- Post-medieval
- Address
- Brook Cottage, Biddestone & Slaughterford, SN14 8RG
- OS grid reference
- ST 840 738
- Coordinates
- 51.46335, -2.23115
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Brook Cottage, originally a pair of cottages and now a house, dates to the early 18th century with an addition constructed in 1765. It is built of rubble stone with ashlar dressings, and has a stone-tiled roof with coped gables. The east end features a saddlestone, while brick stacks are present at the west end and on the north-east rear gable.
The earlier cottage, to the right, has a three-window front with hollow-chamfered mullion windows. These include two-light windows with hoods on the first floor, and a continuous dripmould over two three-light ground-floor windows; the dripmould steps over the doorcase which is flanked by smaller single-light windows, all with cyma moulding. An east-end wall features a three-light ground-floor window under a dripmould, and two-light first-floor and attic windows with hoods. The windows contain small panes, casements, and central small sashes. A single-light window is found on the rear gable at first-floor and attic levels.
The west-end addition is a two-window range with a dripmould broken for the doorway, which has a flat stone hood. It features three-light and two-light windows on each floor, with cyma moulding (without hoods), and an upper two-light window that is hollow moulded, seemingly a reused element. A datestone, W S M 1765, is located between the upper windows.
Local climate
Brook 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 — 5 transactions since 1995
- 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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