Fern Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 December 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Fern Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lone-gravel-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 December 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Fern Cottage, West Street, Barford St. Martin, SP3 4AH
- OS grid reference
- SU 055 314
- Coordinates
- 51.08261, -1.92235
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fern Cottage is a detached cottage dating from the mid-17th century. It features square-panelled timber-framing with brick nogging and dressed limestone on the left return. The cottage has a thatched roof with gable end brick stacks. It is a single-storey building with an attic and has two windows. The ground floor includes a 20th-century two-light casement window and a single-light casement window, while the attic has two eyebrow dormers with 2-light casements. The entrance is located on the left return and has a 20th-century planked door. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Fern Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% 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 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 2 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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