French Horn is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
French Horn
- WRENN ID
- ancient-gable-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- French Horn, 1 and 2, High Street, Codford
- OS grid reference
- ST 968 398
- Coordinates
- 51.1577, -2.0467
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The French Horn consists of two cottages located on Codford High Street, dating from around 1700, with an extension from the 18th century. The exterior features a mix of chequered flint and limestone, with some areas rendered, and a thatched roof that has a coped verge and a brick stack on the left side, while the right side has a half-hip. The building is arranged in an L-plan and is two stories high, with a three-window entrance front for No 2.
The central entrance has a 20th-century gabled porch with a planked door, flanked by leaded casement windows with three lights on either side. On the first floor, there is a three-light casement window to the left and two two-light casement windows to the right, all of which are leaded. The left side of the building has a 20th-century door leading to No 1 and additional leaded casement windows. The right side features a lean-to extension.
Inside No 2, there is a deep chamfered beam with stepped stops, which may have been reset, and an open fireplace with a cambered chamfered lintel set on chamfered stone jambs, complete with a bread oven. The building was known as the French Horn Inn during the 19th century.
Local climate
French Horn receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1997
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