8, The Butts is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. A C17 Cottage. 1 related planning application.
8, The Butts
- WRENN ID
- buried-thatch-dust
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 8, The Butts, Aldbourne, SN8 2DE
- OS grid reference
- SU 264 753
- Coordinates
- 51.47662, -1.6205
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 8 The Butts is a 17th-century cottage located in a row of similar buildings. It is constructed of colourwashed stone rubble and features a thatched roof. The cottage is one storey high with an attic and consists of two bays. The central entrance has a boarded door, and there is a 12-pane casement window above it, both topped with segmental brick arches. To the right, there is a pair of doors leading to a service bay. The left side has a stack, and the thatch extends over a 4-pane casement dormer. Inside, there is a round pole spine beam.
Local climate
8, The Butts receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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 — 2 transactions since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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