4, Sheep Street is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1955. Shop.
4, Sheep Street
- WRENN ID
- stony-footing-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- Swindon North MP: Will Stone (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1955
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- 4, Sheep Street, Highworth, SN6 7AA
- OS grid reference
- SU 202 925
- Coordinates
- 51.63099, -1.70934
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 4 Sheep Street is a late 18th-century building that stands two and a half storeys tall and is finished in stucco. It features a slate roof with a raised central section for a rear wing, along with two gabled dormers. On the first floor, there are two sash windows with glazing bars. The ground floor has a projecting shop front flanked by doors and a large awning. The left-hand door is a six-panel design and is sheltered by a moulded hood. The rear wing is a substantial two and a half storey extension that includes a large square brick gable end stack on the north side, which has a block modillion base.
Local climate
4, Sheep Street 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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