Minton Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1985. A C18 Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Minton Cottage
- WRENN ID
- muted-pavement-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Minton Cottage, 20, the Borough, Downton, SP5 3ND
- OS grid reference
- SU 171 213
- Coordinates
- 50.99146, -1.75648
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Minton Cottage is a detached cottage dating from the 18th century, located set back behind Number 18 on the south side of Downton, The Borough. It is constructed of Flemish bond brick with vitrified headers and features a thatched roof with a hip to the right and a brick stack on the left. The entrance is located at the rear. The cottage is two stories high with a three-window front, which includes three 2-light segmental-headed casements on the ground floor and two 2-light casements on the first floor. The left side of the cottage is windowless. The rear has a 20th-century door in a flat-roofed extension to the left, along with all 20th-century casements. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Minton Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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