Lavender Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1986. Cottage.
Lavender Cottage
- WRENN ID
- slow-truss-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Lavender Cottage, Grafton
- OS grid reference
- SU 284 600
- Coordinates
- 51.33843, -1.59283
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lavender Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located in Grafton Marten. It features a timber frame with colourwashed brick noggings and a thatched roof. The building is single-storey with an attic and consists of two to three bays. The entrance is located in the right bay, accessed through a boarded door that is sheltered by a thatched canopy. The framing consists of three panels high, and there are leaded windows throughout. A stack is positioned between the second and third bays, and the roof is hipped, extending over a left end extension. At the rear, there is a lean-to. Inside, the cottage has chamfered ceiling beams, exposed joists, and a chamfered fireplace beam.
Local climate
Lavender Cottage receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% 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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