Pearce's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1976. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Pearce's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- solemn-grate-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 April 1976
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Pearce's Cottage, High Street, Avebury, SN8 1RF
- OS grid reference
- SU 100 698
- Coordinates
- 51.42789, -1.85745
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pearce's Cottage is a cottage located at the end of a row, dating from the 17th century and early 19th century. It is constructed of brick with a sarsen stone left gable and features a large stack. The original thatched roof has been replaced with tiles. The cottage is two storeys high and consists of a living hall, an inner room, and a 19th-century kitchen at the rear. There is an off-centre door leading to the main room, and a second door that is now blocked. The windows are from the 19th century, with three lights on the ground floor and two lights on the upper floor, all set within cambered brick arched openings and featuring a flush blue brick string course. Inside, there is a bar-stop chamfered spine beam and a timber-framed partition to the inner room, which has been replaced on the ground floor. The large fireplace includes a chamfered fire beam and two brick ovens, along with a late 19th-century range in the inner room.
Local climate
Pearce's Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 1 transaction since 2022
- 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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