43, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1988. Cottage.
43, High Street
- WRENN ID
- moated-slate-heath
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 43, High Street, Steeple Ashton
- OS grid reference
- ST 907 566
- Coordinates
- 51.30877, -2.13361
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 43 is a detached cottage located on High Street in Steeple Ashton. It dates from around 1500 and was altered in the late 17th century. The cottage features a north bay made of rubble stone and a south bay with square panelled timber-framing and brick nogging. It has a half-hipped thatched roof with three diagonally-set brick axial stacks. The entrance is located in the north gable-end. The building is single-storey with an attic, featuring a four-panelled door, a 3-light casement window to the right, and a 2-light casement window in the attic, with cruck blades rendered over. The front facing the road has a 20th-century three-light casement window in the rubble stone left bay. The right side has 2-light casement windows on both floors. There are rear lean-to extensions. The interior is reported to have a cruck truss at the north end and a blocked open fireplace.
Local climate
43, 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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