River Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1985. Cottage. 5 related planning applications.
River Cottage
- WRENN ID
- half-window-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- River Cottage, 114, the Borough, Downton, SP5 3LY
- OS grid reference
- SU 177 216
- Coordinates
- 50.99364, -1.74828
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
River Cottage is a mid-18th century cottage located at the end of a row in Downton. It is constructed of Flemish bond brick with a tiled roof and a brick stack on the left side. The cottage is two storeys high and has two windows. A 20th-century central door is flanked by two segmental-headed 2-light casement windows on the ground floor. The first floor has two 2-light casements and one blocked window. To the left is a brick extension built with English bond, featuring a half-hipped tiled roof and a 20th-century casement window. The rear of the property was inaccessible during a survey in November 1984. The interior reportedly contains an open fireplace with a chamfered lintel, a timber-framed partition, and planked doors with wooden latches.
Local climate
River Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier 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 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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