Church House is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1955. Town house.
Church House
- WRENN ID
- hushed-crypt-furze
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- Swindon North MP: Will Stone (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1955
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- Church House, 9, Sheep Street, Highworth
- OS grid reference
- SU 201 925
- Coordinates
- 51.6311, -1.71009
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church House is a dignified two-storey town house built around 1765. It features five bays and is constructed of rubble with flush ashlar quoins. The modern slate roof is hipped to the left and has weathered stone verge coping with a moulded footstone to the right. A brick chimney is located on the right side of the building.
On the first floor, there are five windows, while the ground floor has two windows; all are glazing bar sashes except for the left ground floor window. The windows have wooden lintels. The central doorway is topped with a bracketed flat hood and features a six-panel door, with the upper two panels being glazed, and a two-pane overlight above.
Additionally, there is a four-window return to Vicarage Lane, along with a two-storey lower stable and malthouse wing, which was formerly a brewery in the 19th century. This wing has stone tile roofs and some brick quoined dressings.
Local climate
Church 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 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% 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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