Vale Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. A C17/Early C18 House.
Vale Cottage
- WRENN ID
- night-keep-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1960
- Type
- House
- Address
- Vale Cottage, Waterside, Castle Combe
- OS grid reference
- ST 841 769
- Coordinates
- 51.49123, -2.22962
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Vale Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century or early 18th century, constructed of rubble stone with a stone tiled roof. It features a one-and-a-half storey design with three windows across the front, which has three gables, including a smaller central gable. The windows are recessed and have chamfered stone mullions, hoodmoulds, and leaded lights, with two-light windows on the upper floor and three-light windows below. The central doorway is Tudor-arched and is set within a timber porch that has bargeboards. Additionally, there are two-light windows on the first floor and three-light windows on the ground floor of the east end wall. The building also includes a west end extension.
Local climate
Vale Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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