Pynsent Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1988. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Pynsent Cottage
- WRENN ID
- silver-gallery-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Pynsent Cottage, the Green, Urchfont, SN10 4RB
- OS grid reference
- SU 037 571
- Coordinates
- 51.31353, -1.94826
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pynsent Cottage is a 17th-century cottage located on the north side of The Green in Urchfont. It is timber framed with brick noggings and features a thatched roof. The building is single storey with an attic and consists of three bays. The central half bay contains a stack and stair, while there is an unheated bay on the right and an added half bay on the left from the late 18th to early 19th century. The framing has two panels high on stone sills, with corner braces. The cottage has a boarded door and paned timber windows, along with two 3-light flush dormers and a central chimney.
Inside, the main fireplace in the right room is blocked, and there is a lobby to the rear. The interior includes chamfered spine beams with check and scoop stops. The roof features clasped purlins and windbraces in the parlour bay. A wattle and daub hood and stack were replaced with brick in 1938.
Local climate
Pynsent 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 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 1996
- 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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