The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- long-soffit-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, West Knoyle
- OS grid reference
- ST 847 322
- Coordinates
- 51.0891, -2.21857
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a detached house dating from the late 17th century and 18th century. It features a rendered exterior and a thatched roof with brick stacks at the gable ends. The building has a three-cell plan and is two storeys high with four windows across the front. A four-panelled door is located in a thatched porch to the left of centre, with a three-light casement window to the left and three additional three-light casements to the right. On the first floor, there are four three-light casements. The right side of the building has a single-light casement window on the first floor. At the rear, there are 19th-century lean-to extensions with tiled roofs, a half-glazed door leading to an outshut, a raking dormer with a two-light leaded casement on the left, and an eyebrow dormer with a three-light casement on the right. The interior was not accessible during the survey in September 1986, but it is reported to have chamfered beams and open fireplaces with lintels resting on stone jambs.
Local climate
The Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% 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 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 62% 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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