Large's House is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. House. 2 related planning applications.
Large's House
- WRENN ID
- spare-arch-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- Swindon North MP: Will Stone (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Large's House, the Street, Blunsdon, SN26 7BJ
- OS grid reference
- SU 145 912
- Coordinates
- 51.62014, -1.79073
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a former farmhouse, dated 1697, with a later datestone of 1769. It is constructed of rubble walls with red brick quoins and dressings, rendered and colourwashed to the front. The roof is covered with artificial stone slates, and there are three brick chimneys, two with moulded capping. Two gabled dormers are present.
The original building comprised two rooms, entered via a lobby behind the right-hand gable stack, with a stair positioned in front of the stack. The main door was originally centrally located on the front elevation. The house was extended to the right and with two gabled blocks to the rear in the 19th century.
The front elevation has two and a half storeys and two plus one bays. The two left-hand bays feature sashes with glazing bars. The central door has been blocked and replaced with a window; a door is now located to the right of centre. At the right-hand end of the 17th-century block are two small, oak-framed windows with chamfered mullions, formerly lighting the stair. These have two lights to the ground floor and one to the first floor. The right-hand bay has altered casement windows from the early 19th century. There are two gabled extensions to the rear, one of which has a dormer with a lead lattice window.
Inside, the ground floor room on the left has an open fireplace with an ornamented stone fireback dated 1697, which has been reset but is likely original to the house. A bread oven is also present. The building represents an interesting transition from a 17th-century lobby entry to an 18th-century central stair plan, resulting in a symmetrical facade except for the smaller stair windows.
Local climate
Large's House 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 2000
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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