The Croft is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. House.
The Croft
- WRENN ID
- hollow-rafter-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1960
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Croft, Church Street, Biddestone & Slaughterford
- OS grid reference
- ST 862 735
- Coordinates
- 51.46065, -2.19959
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Croft is an 18th-century house that has been altered. It is constructed from rubble stone and features stone tiled roofs, coped gables, and end wall stacks. The building is two storeys high and has a double fronted design. Originally, it had stone-mullion windows, but these have been modified to include 19th-century sash windows.
On the first floor, there are two 4-pane sashes; one is set in an ovolo-moulded frame with a hoodmould, while the other is in a bead-moulded frame with a hoodmould, both of which were formerly 2-light windows. The ground floor has a central cyma-moulded flush doorcase with a hood on brackets, which is obscured by a lean-to porch. To the left, there is a broad 6-pane window that has been cut down from a 3-light mullion window, complete with a hoodmould above it. To the right, there is a 19th-century 16-pane sash window in a flush surround.
Attached to the west end of the house are two outbuildings made of rubble stone, both with stone tiled roofs. The larger outbuilding has a door and a window and is connected to the house, while the lower range is located at the west end.
Local climate
The Croft 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 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 1 transaction since 1995
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