No 46 (Market Place Block) is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1955. House, public house. 1 related planning application.

No 46 (Market Place Block)

WRENN ID
long-quartz-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swindon
Constituency
Swindon North MP: Will Stone (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1955
Type
House, public house
Address
No 46 (Market Place Block), High Street, Highworth, SN6 7AQ
OS grid reference
SU 202 924
Coordinates
51.63074, -1.70936
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 46, Highworth High Street is an early 19th-century building fronting onto the Market Place, built forward of a mid-17th-century structure. It was formerly the Holy Lamb public house. The front of the building is two storeys high, constructed of rubble with brick quoins and quoined brick dressings. It has a low-pitched stone tile roof, hipped in form. There are six sash windows with glazing bars on the first floor, and one on the ground floor. A shop front occupies the centre right, while a six-panel door is located to the left of centre, both with stone lintels above.

The older section of the building is visible behind the front and extends to two and a half storeys, featuring two gabled dormers and a stone tile roof. A substantial chimney stack is situated on the left side with two diagonal brick shafts rising from a weathered and stepped stone base. A further brick chimney is set off the ridge on the right-hand gable. On the right-hand gable, the front of the building connects to a two-storey extension. Also on this gable is a panel displaying a faded and illegible date, appearing to resemble A.D. 1566, accompanied by an unusual device potentially resembling a woolmark. A further two-storey extension is located to the north-east.

Local climate

No 46 (Market Place Block) 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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