Fonthill Gifford is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1987. Estate cottage.

Fonthill Gifford

WRENN ID
dark-bonework-pine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 July 1987
Type
Estate cottage
Address
Fonthill Gifford, 74, Hindon Lane, Tisbury
OS grid reference
ST 931 311
Coordinates
51.07965, -2.09914
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 74 Fonthill Gifford is an estate cottage built in 1862 for Alfred Morrison. The cottage features dressed limestone on the ground floor and timber-framing on the first floor, topped with a thatched gabled roof and brick stacks that are either diagonally set or square. It is a single storey with an attic and has one window on the north side. The entrance is located on the left return and includes a half-glazed door. To the left of the entrance, there is a 2-light mullioned casement window and a projecting bread oven. The jettied upper floor has a 3-light leaded casement window, which is partly tile-hung.

The front of the cottage has a 4-light leaded casement window on the left, while a 2-storey stone and timber-framed bay on the right features a mullioned leaded casement on the ground floor and a wooden casement on the first floor. An external stone stack to the right has a stone tablet with the initials AM and the date 1862. A cross wing to the right includes a 3-light mullioned casement window on the ground floor, and the right return has a tile-hung gablet with single chamfered casements on the ground floor of the main range. Inside, there is a blocked open fireplace. This cottage is noted as a good early example of Vernacular Revival in estate building, and the style suggests it may have been designed by G. Devey.

Local climate

Fonthill Gifford receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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