20 and 21, Compton Road is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 November 1987. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
20 and 21, Compton Road
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 November 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 20 and 21, Compton Road, Hilmarton, SN11 8SG
- OS grid reference
- SU 020 751
- Coordinates
- 51.47493, -1.97173
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A pair of estate cottages dated 1875, designed by Henry Weaver for W.H. Poynder. They are built of rock-faced squared rubble stone, with a fishscale banded tile roof surviving on No. 20, and concrete plain tiles to No. 21. Stone stacks are present. The cottages are arranged as a T-plan, joined back-to-side. Each cottage has coped gables and stone mullion windows with shouldered heads to the lights and decorative hexagonal lattice cast-iron glazing.
No. 21, facing west, has a symmetrical front with a north stack. There is a single two-light window on either side of a projecting porch gable, with a single light above a shouldered-headed doorway, featuring a hoodmould and lozenge-shaped stops. A date plaque is positioned above the doorway. The south end wall has two two-light windows.
No. 20, facing south, has an identical projecting porch gable, a two-light window to the ground floor right, and a three-light window to the ground floor left, with a single light over in a coped dormer gable. An east end stack and a ridge stack at the west end are also present. The cottages correspond to Plate 6, a design for cottages near Beversbrook, in Henry Weaver's Hints on Cottage Architecture of 1848.
Local climate
20 and 21, Compton Road 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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