Quaker Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
Quaker Cottage
- WRENN ID
- rough-transept-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Quaker Cottage, 10, King Street, Melksham, SN12 6HD
- OS grid reference
- ST 904 635
- Coordinates
- 51.37059, -2.13853
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Quaker Cottage is a detached cottage dated 1705, located on King Street in Melksham. The building is constructed of dressed stone and features a stone slate roof with coped verges and a stone stack on the left side. It is two stories high with a symmetrical front that has three windows. The central door is set in a cyma-moulded case, with a 3-light cyma-mullioned window on either side. Above the door lintel, there is a raised string course. The first floor contains three 2-light cyma-mullioned windows. The rear of the cottage is made of rubblestone and includes a central projecting cylindrical stair turret, a 2-light cyma-mullioned window to the left on the first floor, and a single-storey extension with a hipped pantiled roof that projects to the rear. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Quaker Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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