42, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1955. House.
42, High Street
- WRENN ID
- slow-quartz-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- Swindon North MP: Will Stone (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- 42, High Street, Highworth
- OS grid reference
- SU 201 924
- Coordinates
- 51.63089, -1.7101
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 42 on High Street is an early 18th-century building that stands two and a half storeys tall. It is constructed of painted brick and features chamfered quotas on the first floor to the right, along with a wooden eaves cornice beneath a modern pantile roof. A brick gable end chimney is located on the left side of the building.
On the first floor, there are two windows; one is blocked, while the other is a three-light wooden mullion and transom window with lead glazing. The ground floor has a later bressumer with a cornice and a glazing bar sash window. To the right, there is a six-panel door.
Local climate
42, High 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings