42, Holders Road is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1988. Smallholder's dwelling.
42, Holders Road
- WRENN ID
- south-chamber-dawn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 October 1988
- Type
- Smallholder's dwelling
- Address
- 42, Holders Road, Amesbury
- OS grid reference
- SU 163 416
- Coordinates
- 51.17345, -1.76805
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 42 on Holders Road is an experimental smallholder's dwelling built between 1919 and 1920 by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research for the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, with W.R. Jaggard as the supervising architect. The building features chalk concrete blockwork on brick and flint sills, topped with a plain tiled roof. It is two storeys tall and has an L-plan layout, with a single storey wing at the rear and a roof that sweeps down over the entrance at the front. The entrance has a 20th-century door, and the windows are timber paned with brick sills and a tiled hood supported by a soldier course. There are two brick stacks and wide open-raftered eaves. The walls are made from pre-formed dense chalk concrete blocks measuring 9 inches by 12 inches by 18 inches, consisting of 12 parts crushed chalk to 1 part cement, moulded using a 'Dri-crete' machine and finished with limewash. The ground floor is suspended. This house is part of the second group of experimental homes designed to promote cost savings through the use of local materials and innovative construction methods.
Local climate
42, Holders Road receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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