21 and 22, St John's Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1954. House. 1 related planning application.
21 and 22, St John's Street
- WRENN ID
- swift-iron-burdock
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 April 1954
- Type
- House
- Address
- 21 and 22, St John's Street, Devizes, SN10 1BT
- OS grid reference
- SU 004 612
- Coordinates
- 51.35077, -1.99462
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 21 and 22 on St John's Street are a pair of buildings dated 1740, as noted on the rainwater head. They are three stories tall with a colour-washed stucco front set on a plinth. The upper part of the façade features a moulded first-floor string course and four Doric pilasters that divide the front into two bays. There is a moulded wood eaves cornice and a hipped slate roof. The upper floors have four windows, all with segmental heads, intact sash glazing bars, flush architrave frames with key blocks, and moulded sills.
On the ground floor, there is a recessed modern door to the left within an architrave surround, coupled sash windows in a flush architrave frame, and to the right, a wide 18th-century canted bay supported by a small iron bracket, complete with a frieze and cornice. The return front to St John's Court has a blank upper part flanked by Doric pilasters, with the string course returned. There is also a recessed four-panel door on the ground floor. The first bay of the adjoining row to the rear on St John's Court is part of No 22 but is described under Nos 1, 2, and 3 St John's Court. The building is reputed to have been used by General Wolfe when he visited the town. Nos 19 to 22 form a group.
Local climate
21 and 22, St John's Street receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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 — 3 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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