42, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1986. Cottage.
42, High Street
- WRENN ID
- ragged-timber-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 42, High Street, Erlestoke
- OS grid reference
- ST 962 538
- Coordinates
- 51.28417, -2.05488
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 42 High Street is an early 19th-century cottage made of painted brick with a plain tile roof that is hipped at the rear and features a ridge stack. This one and a half storey building is designed in a picturesque style, showcasing an ornamented gable end facing the road. It has pierced bargeboards and a pendant, along with a stone band. The center of the cottage projects outward, featuring a broad arched-headed triple casement window on the first floor, supported by a reused carved medieval corbel below. The central door is flanked by small arched-headed windows that have leaded iron casements and intersecting-tracery heads. Above the door, there are reused 17th-century grotesque carvings. The side walls are constructed of rubble stone. This cottage is part of a series of estate cottages from Erlestoke Park, which are embellished with various carved fragments.
Local climate
42, High Street receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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