Bishop's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1987. House.
Bishop's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- spare-clay-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bishop's Cottage, Wyndham Lane, Allington
- OS grid reference
- SU 204 395
- Coordinates
- 51.15453, -1.70938
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bishop's Cottage is a late 18th-century farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It stands on the site of an earlier building that was destroyed by fire. The cottage is constructed of colourwashed flint with brick quoins and banding on a brick sill, topped with a thatched roof. It has two storeys and three bays. The central door has been replaced by a window, and all windows are 19th-century paired casements set within segmental headed openings. There is a boarded door in a lean-to on the left, which is enclosed in a glass porch. The eaves feature offsetting brick courses, and there are gable stacks. At the rear, there is a continuous lean-to that was formerly a dairy, along with a rear wing on the left that now contains the kitchen. The interior has been altered, but the original kitchen was likely in the left bay fireplace. There is a spine beam in the living room and wattle and daub partitions on the first floor. The original staircase was located in the outshut. Richard Bishop, a bricklayer, built the cottage after acquiring the site in 1789 and sold it in 1804.
Local climate
Bishop's Cottage receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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