Church Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1987. Cottage. 4 related planning applications.

Church Cottage

WRENN ID
shadowed-cinder-spring
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 July 1987
Type
Cottage
Address
Church Cottage, Church Hill, Donhead St. Mary, SP7 9DQ
OS grid reference
ST 906 244
Coordinates
51.01908, -2.1349
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Church Cottage is a detached cottage and cartshed that has been converted into one house. It dates from the late 17th century and the mid-19th century. The building is constructed of dressed limestone and features a tiled roof with a rendered brick stack on the left and coped verges.

The cottage is two stories high and has two windows with casements. To the right of the center, there is a Tudor-arched moulded door surround with a hoodmould and a planked door fitted with strap hinges. To the left of the door, there is a three-light diamond-leaded casement in a hollow-chamfered surround with a hoodmould, and to the right, there is a two-light similar casement also in a hollow-chamfered surround with a hoodmould. On the first floor, there are two diamond-leaded casements in hollow-chamfered surrounds. A diagonal buttress is located at the right corner, and a pilaster on the left features a relief-carved date of 1450.

Attached to the left side of the cottage is a single-storey former cartshed from the 19th century, which has a 20th-century central door with a transom light, and cast-iron latticed two-light casements on both sides. The roof of the cartshed is hipped to the left. The right return of the building has a fixed leaded window on the ground floor, and there are 20th-century lean-to extensions at the rear. Inside, the cottage features a chamfered beam.

Local climate

Church Cottage receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 1998
  • Related listed building consents — 4 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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