The Retreat is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. House. 1 related planning application.
The Retreat
- WRENN ID
- weathered-tracery-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- Swindon North MP: Will Stone (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Retreat, High Street, Blunsdon, SN26 7AG
- OS grid reference
- SU 149 905
- Coordinates
- 51.61316, -1.7861
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Retreat is an early 19th-century building located on the south side of High Street in Broad Blunsdon. It is a two and a half storey structure with a pebbledash exterior and a slate roof, featuring rendered end chimneys. The building has two gabled dormers and three sash windows with glazing bars and raised surrounds. A projecting portico is supported by fluted columns with lotus caps, and it has a moulded cornice and a slight pediment above the front entrance, which includes a half-glazed door. To the right of the building, there are tall ashlar incised gatepiers and an adjacent 1 and a half storey rubble coach house.
Local climate
The Retreat receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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 2022
- 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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