Alley Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 November 1987. Farmhouse.
Alley Cottage
- WRENN ID
- seventh-storey-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 November 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Alley Cottage, 59, Compton Bassett
- OS grid reference
- SU 034 729
- Coordinates
- 51.45564, -1.9522
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Alley Cottage is a farmhouse located in Compton Bassett, dating from the 18th century. It is constructed of whitewashed chalk rubble and features a thatched roof with end stacks. The building has two storeys and a three-window range of leaded casements, with a triple casement on each side and a pair above the central door. The left window on the ground floor has been replaced. The southeast corner is accentuated with quoins, and there is a lean-to at the north end that includes an east-facing triple casement. The rear wall displays a straight joint with a two-window range of casement pairs to the left, a door, and a one-window range to the right.
Local climate
Alley Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% 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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