5, Sheep Street is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1955. House. 10 related planning applications.
5, Sheep Street
- WRENN ID
- waning-vestry-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- Swindon North MP: Will Stone (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- 5, Sheep Street, Highworth, SN6 7AA
- OS grid reference
- SU 202 925
- Coordinates
- 51.63102, -1.70946
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 5 Sheep Street is a mid-18th century building. It is two and a half storeys high, with a plastered front. Visible features include a band above the ground floor and three windows with glazing bar sashes. There are two small, hipped, angled bays at ground floor level. The right-hand side of the building is distinguished by an eight-panel raised and fielded door, surmounted by a bracketted flat hood and a transom light with marginal glazing. A gabled dormer is also present. The roof is covered with Roman tiles, swept up at the eaves. A brick chimney is located on the left.
Local climate
5, 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 10 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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