7 is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1987. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
7
- WRENN ID
- half-cobble-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 7, Sherrington, BA12 0SN
- OS grid reference
- ST 959 390
- Coordinates
- 51.15072, -2.05958
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 7 is a detached cottage located in Sherrington, dating from the mid-17th century. It is constructed of dressed limestone and features a thatched roof with half-hips and an axial brick stack. The building has a baffle entry plan and is single storey with an attic.
The front façade includes a 20th-century planked door with a flat wooden hood positioned to the right of center, flanked by a three-light recessed chamfered mullioned casement on either side. There are two brick eyebrow dormers, each containing two-light casements. The left side of the cottage has a single-light 20th-century casement and a two-light casement on the attic floor made of chalk block. The right side features a three-light casement and a single-light casement on the ground floor, along with a 20th-century attic casement.
At the rear, there is a lean-to extension on the left and a three-light casement on the right, along with a dormer that has a two-light casement. Inside, the east room contains a deep chamfered beam with jewel stops and an open fireplace with a chamfered lintel set on chamfered stone jambs. The west room also has an open fireplace, which features a renewed lintel on stone jambs and includes a bread oven.
Local climate
7 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 34 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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