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

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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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