Vine Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 February 2001. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Vine Cottage
- WRENN ID
- drifting-balcony-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 February 2001
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Vine Cottage, South Street, Avebury, SN8 1QX
- OS grid reference
- SU 094 694
- Coordinates
- 51.42416, -1.86553
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Vine Cottage is a pair of attached cottages, now combined into a single house, dating from the early 18th century. It was remodelled in the early to mid-19th century and altered in the late 20th century. The exterior is constructed of coursed stone and stone rubble, with dressed stone quoins and brick window dressings. It has a thatched roof with half-hipped ends and a brick axial stack.
The original 18th-century house was converted into two cottages in the early to mid-19th century, with each cottage featuring a back-to-back fireplace in a central axial stack, heating a kitchen and an unheated service room at either end. These cottages were later converted back into a single house in the 20th century.
The south front is symmetrical, with three windows. The windows are casements with glazing bars; the outer windows are single-light, and the central windows are three-light, all with brick dressings. The ground floor windows have cambered arches. There is a doorway to the left and right of centre; the left doorway has an early 19th-century flush-panel door, while the right has a 20th-century glazed door. The rear (north) elevation is largely blind, with two small single-light windows under the eaves, featuring wrought-iron casements with leaded panes.
Internally, partitions separating the principal rooms and the end rooms have been removed or breached. A plaster ceiling in the west end has been removed, exposing the roof joists. A brick fireplace with a cambered brick arch is present in a room on the right-hand side. The roof structure features pole rafters and purlins braced apart by collars with birdsmouth joints.
Local climate
Vine Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 7 transactions 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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