Numbers 1 and 2 Flood Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1985. Cottage.

Numbers 1 and 2 Flood Cottages

WRENN ID
buried-quoin-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 July 1985
Type
Cottage
Address
Numbers 1 and 2 Flood Cottages, High Street, Tilshead
OS grid reference
SU 031 479
Coordinates
51.23069, -1.9563
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Numbers 1 and 2 Flood Cottages are a pair of semi-detached cottages built in 1842. They are constructed from plastered cob and feature a Welsh slate roof with axial octagonal brick stacks. The cottages are two stories high and have four windows across the front. There are half-glazed 20th-century doors on the left and right, along with two 2-light and two 3-light casement windows on the ground floor. The first floor includes two 3-light and two 2-light casements. The side returns of the cottages are windowless, and the gables have plain bargeboards. At the rear, there are two 2-light casements and a 20th-century flat-roofed extension on the ground floor. A large cast-iron plaque on the wall at the center of the front first floor commemorates the construction of the cottages in 1842, which followed the Great Flood of 1841. Similar cottages can be found in Orcheston and Shrewton, although the latter is not included in this listing due to alterations.

Local climate

Numbers 1 and 2 Flood Cottages receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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