No 8 and Wall Attached to North of No 8 is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1974. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
No 8 and Wall Attached to North of No 8
- WRENN ID
- iron-arch-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1974
- Type
- Cottage
- OS grid reference
- ST 827 610
- Coordinates
- 51.3483, -2.24865
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a small, late 17th or early 18th century cottage with a gable end facing the street. It is built of coursed rubble with some ashlar blocks, and has a stone slab roof. The gable features a saddle stone and a raised panel in the apex, along with a blocked-up round-headed opening. The first floor has three grouped windows, which were originally sash windows, though their glazing bars are now missing. A 18th century bowed shop window is on the ground floor to the left, featuring small colonnettes at the angles. To the right is a doorway with a moulded wooden surround, leading to a three-panel door with the upper two panels glazed.
Attached to the north side of the cottage is a wall constructed of large ashlar blocks with a plinth. This wall runs up the hill, turning away from the road to connect with a tall gatepier, approximately 12 feet high, topped with a plain stone.
This cottage, along with other buildings in Whitehead’s Lane, numbers 15 to 17 Silver Street and numbers 1 to 4 and 7 and 8 White Hill, are considered to form a group of buildings of group value.
Local climate
No 8 and Wall Attached to North of No 8 receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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