Smithfield Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Smithfield Cottages
- WRENN ID
- buried-bastion-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 August 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Smithfield Cottages, 1-3, Corsham, SN13 9QE
- OS grid reference
- ST 890 707
- Coordinates
- 51.436, -2.15927
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Smithfield Cottages are three cottages dating from the 17th century, constructed of rubble stone with stone-tiled roofs. They feature moulded coping on the gables, which have finials, and a central ridge stack on the main range. The cottages have two dormer gables and a two-window arrangement of three-light ovolo-moulded windows, all equipped with hoodmoulds. The south end wall includes a blank attic two-light window, a first-floor three-light window, and a ground-floor four-light window, with two lights of the ground-floor window removed to accommodate a door.
The rear return has a dormer gable with a similar two-light window. The rear wing contains a ridge stack and a door on the east side set in a moulded surround, with a three-light mullion window to the right. The west side of the wing features two dormer gables, with a three-light window and a two-light window, as well as a door in a moulded surround with a hoodmould and a three-light window to the left. All windows throughout the cottages are fitted with hoodmoulds. The north end of the main range has a two-light window with a hoodmould on both the ground and first floors.
Local climate
Smithfield Cottages receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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