Rock Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.
Rock Cottage
- WRENN ID
- idle-transept-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rock Cottage, Biddestone & Slaughterford, SN14 8RH
- OS grid reference
- ST 843 736
- Coordinates
- 51.46175, -2.22639
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rock Cottage is a house dated 1761, though it may have earlier origins. It is constructed of rubble stone and features a stone tiled roof with a rebuilt ridge stack. The building is one storey with an attic and has a 'T'-plan layout, with a projecting gable on the south front. The windows are ovolo-moulded stone-mullions and have hoodmoulds. The gable front includes a lower 3-light window, an upper 2-light window, and a single light window on the west side wall. There is a stone doorcase located in the angle to the left of the gable, topped with a stone hood and a datestone inscribed with "J W E 1761." Above, there is a dormer gable featuring a 2-light window. The west end wall has a 3-light window on the ground floor and a 2-light window on the first floor, both without hoodmoulds. The rear gable contains one 2-light ovolo-moulded window.
Local climate
Rock Cottage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1998
- 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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