Townsend Cottage
2, TOWNSEND
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1022812
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Townsend Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- 2, TOWNSEND
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 1999-09-24
- Reference:
- IOE01/00076/24
- Rights:
- © Mr Kim Aplin. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1022812
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1960
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Townsend Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, TOWNSEND
- Statutory Address 2:
- TOWNSEND COTTAGE, TOWNSEND
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 2, TOWNSEND
- Statutory Address:
- TOWNSEND COTTAGE, TOWNSEND
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Box
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 82765 68581
Details
ST 8268 BOX TOWNSEND
3/216 Townsend Cottage and No 2 (formerly listed as Townsend Villas)
20 12 60
GV II
Two houses, late C17 and C18, squared rubble stone with imitation stone tile roofs. Townsend Cottage is rebuilt in C18, with coped gables, west end stack, ridge stack and north-east rear wall stack. Two storeys and attic. Flush quoins, raised floor band. Four- window range, those to left set lower with first floor 12-pane sash and ground floor pair of 12-pane sashes, the rest of front near symmetrical with first floor pairs of 12-pane windows, one sash, one fixed, flanking central 12-pane sash and ground floor similar pair to left of central 6-panel door in raised moulded surround with hood on brackets. To right blocked window with remnant of 3- light mullion window. East end wall is ashlar faced and formally treated with early to mid C18 detail. Raised plinth, floor band and moulded cornice, central 6-pane attic window, 2 blank first floor windows in raised moulded surrounds and remnant of 2 similar below replaced by a central pair of 12-pane sashes of late C18 type, similar to those on front elevation. No 2 Townsend, to right, has late C17 origins but C19 roof pitch. Coped west gable. Front has wall-face stack to left, then C18 former door with moulded doorcase hood on brackets and C20 inserted window. Immediately to right blocked door with hoodmould stepped down over 3-light ovolo-moulded mullion window with small paned casements. Above, similar 2-light window with small panes and sash opening light. End wall has early C19 16-pane upper window, 20-pane lower window and door. Rear wing, stone tiled has late C18 two-light flush cyma-moulded mullion window above and remnants of 2 similar below, replaced by 16-pane sash and door in north end lean-to. Townsend cottage is said to have deeds dating to 1728.
Listing NGR: ST8276268580
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 317080
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 28-Jun-2026 at 05:22:09.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.