Cottage Off Footpath About 200 Metres East of Blue Vein Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. Cottage.

Cottage Off Footpath About 200 Metres East of Blue Vein Farmhouse

WRENN ID
weathered-gutter-hazel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 December 1960
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
ST 833 673
Coordinates
51.40523, -2.24109
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This cottage, located off the footpath about 200 meters east of Blue Vein Farmhouse, dates from the late medieval period and the 17th century. It is constructed of rubble stone and features a slate roof with a coped west gable and a west end stack. The building is single storey with an attic and has a one-room plan with a stair at the east end.

The north front showcases a chamfered Tudor-arched doorcase, a 2-light recessed ovolo-moulded window, and a buttress to the right. There is a central hipped dormer that also contains a 2-light ovolo-moulded window. At the rear, there is a ground floor 3-light ovolo-moulded window. The east end wall has a gable that is set back, featuring drip-moulded coping over the main wall and a central small rectangular stair light. To the left, there are upper and lower blocked windows: a small chamfered 2-light window and a 4-light small flat-headed window with pointed heads to the lights.

Inside, the cottage has a Tudor-arched flush west fireplace, a chamfered and stopped centre beam, and a curving stair on the east side. The cottage was noted to be in a ruinous condition in 1985.

Local climate

Cottage Off Footpath About 200 Metres East of Blue Vein Farmhouse receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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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