Threepennybit is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1985. Cottage.
Threepennybit
- WRENN ID
- hollow-chalk-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Threepennybit, Orcheston
- OS grid reference
- SU 059 456
- Coordinates
- 51.21018, -1.91601
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Threepennybit is a detached cottage located in Orcheston St. Mary, dating from the late 17th century. The building is constructed of cob and chalk, topped with a thatched half-hipped roof and features brick stacks. It is a single-storey structure with an attic, comprising two windows. The entrance is a 20th-century door, with a three-light casement window to the left and one two-light and one three-light casement window to the right. There are two eyebrow dormers, each with two-light casements. The right side of the cottage has a single casement window on both the ground and first floors. The rear of the building includes 20th-century casements and an extension. Inside, the cottage features chamfered beams with ogee stops and a chamfered lintel above an open fireplace with brick jambs, along with 18th-century box stairs.
Local climate
Threepennybit receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% 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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