The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- iron-lantern-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Cottage, New Road, Zeals
- OS grid reference
- ST 781 317
- Coordinates
- 51.08453, -2.31272
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a pair of late 18th-century cottages, now combined into a single dwelling. The structure is built of painted rubble stone with brick dressings and has a tiled roof topped with brick stacks. The front facade has four window bays. It features two 6-panelled doors, each with an ogee trellised canopy above. Either side of each door is a 2-light, segmental-headed casement window with a keystone. To the left of the front doors is a 6-panelled door and a single-light casement window. The first floor has four 2-light casement windows with small panes, fitted with cast iron. The rear of the building has no windows.
Local climate
The Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2010
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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