The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1988. A C17 House. 2 related planning applications.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- waning-clay-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, High Street, Figheldean, SP4 8JJ
- OS grid reference
- SU 152 472
- Coordinates
- 51.22454, -1.78366
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, located on the west side of Figheldean High Street. It is timber-framed with brick and flint noggings and features a thatched roof. The building is single storey with an attic and consists of three bays. There is a central entrance that is part-glazed and has a tiled porch added in the 20th century. The house has flanking reception rooms, with the main heated room located to the right. The framing consists of three panels high, with the upper panel being roughcast. A canted bay window with diamond pattern glazing is present on the ground floor. The first floor has gabled flush dormers with sliding casements and added paned fanlights. There is a gable stack to the right and a rendered lean-to extension to the north. An additional stack is located to the south, along with a 20th-century garage and a parallel rear range also added in the 20th century.
Local climate
The Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2004
- 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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