Vergers Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1973. A C19 Cottages.
Vergers Cottages
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1973
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Vergers Cottages, 18 and 19, Church Street, Trowbridge
- OS grid reference
- ST 856 581
- Coordinates
- 51.32196, -2.20702
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Vergers Cottages, located on Church Street, were built in 1861 and are designed in the Tudor vernacular style. They are situated next to the Union Street Almshouses and appear to be part of the same design scheme. The building features a gabled break to the left and two gables to the right, with a total of two storeys constructed from rubble and topped with tiled roofs.
On the first floor, there are three two-light mullion casement windows, while the ground floor has two three-light mullion casement windows, all adorned with diamond leaded lattices. A double porch is positioned at the angle of the building, featuring pointed arches that lead to separate doorways.
Vergers Cottages, along with Nos 16 to 19, which incorporate the former National Schools, form a group with Nos 1 to 4 of the Union Street Almshouses, the street wall fronting the Almshouses, No 9, and St James's Hall on Union Street.
Local climate
Vergers Cottages receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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