The Sawmills is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1988. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
The Sawmills
- WRENN ID
- tangled-zinc-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Sawmills, Friars Lane, Urchfont, SN10 4SF
- OS grid reference
- SU 041 571
- Coordinates
- 51.31317, -1.94138
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Sawmills is a cottage dating from the late 18th century, located on Friars Lane in Urchfont. It features colourwashed brickwork and a thatched roof. The building is single storey with an attic, raised in slender framing to two storeys and consists of two bays. The central entrance has a 20th-century six-panelled door with a flat canopy above. The ground floor includes four-paned sash windows, while the upper floor has small casement windows. There is a gable stack facing the road. To the left, there is a mid-19th century extension with a slate roof, which has timber casement windows and a stack at the junction with the main building. The right side has a rear wing that is three bays long, also thatched, featuring casement windows and an axial gable stack.
Local climate
The Sawmills receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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