Picton House is a Grade II* listed building in the Wychavon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1959. A C18 House.
Picton House
- WRENN ID
- riven-joist-flax
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Wychavon
- Constituency
- Droitwich and Evesham MP: Nigel Huddleston (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1959
- Type
- House
- Address
- Picton House, 42, High Street, Broadway, WR12 7DT
- OS grid reference
- SP 097 375
- Coordinates
- 52.0363, -1.8595
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Picton House is a house dating from around 1700, with early and late 18th-century additions and alterations. It is constructed of limestone ashlar and has a stone slate roof. The building is two storeys tall with an attic and features five bays in its earliest part. The windows are sashed with glazing bars and have rebated and chamfered surrounds, as well as projecting sills. The narrow stones in the jambs indicate that the windows originally had a mullion and transom. Above the ground floor windows, there is a band of narrow stones, possibly indicating where a string course has been removed.
To the left, there are two added bays with sashes featuring glazing bars, plain reveals, projecting sills, and keyed lintels. To the right, there is another addition of one bay that contains a sash with glazing bars, plain reveals, and a projecting sill above an elliptical arch leading to a yard entrance. The house has five hipped attic dormers. The central door is six panels within a lugged architrave from around 1700, complete with a transom light and an added projecting timber hood. At the rear, a wing extending from the early part of the house has rebated and chamfered mullioned windows.
Inside, the right-hand room features an exposed chamfered beam and a stone inglenook fireplace with a timber bressummer.
Local climate
Picton House receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% 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 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% 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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