The House of Steps is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. House. 5 related planning applications.
The House of Steps
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-granite-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The House of Steps, Coulston, BA13 4NX
- OS grid reference
- ST 949 539
- Coordinates
- 51.2849, -2.07409
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The House of Steps is a detached house dating from the mid-18th century. It is constructed of Flemish bond brick with stone quoins and a rubble stone plinth, and has a stone slate roof with coped verges and gable end brick stacks. The house has two storeys and three windows. A central planked door is set within a cyma-moulded architrave with a flat stone hood supported by brackets, and leads up three semi-circular stone steps. The ground floor originally had two-light recessed chamfered mullioned casements to the cellar on either side, and the first floor has three-light cyma-mullioned casements, with a two-light mullioned casement above the door. A blocked opening on the left return once led to a bread oven. An early 20th-century extension is attached to the right return. The rear elevation includes French windows and a two-light casement to the first floor, along with a two-storey extension featuring a two-light casement.
The interior features an open fireplace with a renewed lintel on chamfered stone jambs, alongside winding stairs in the former kitchen. The parlour has a stone fireplace surround with beaded round corners, a cyma-moulded plaster ceiling cornice and roughly chamfered beams. A barrel-vaulted cellar runs the length of the house.
Local climate
The House of Steps receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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 1996
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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