Barford House is a Grade II* listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. House.
Barford House
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Barford House, 35, St John's Street, Devizes
- OS grid reference
- SU 004 613
- Coordinates
- 51.35153, -1.99532
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Barford House, located at No. 35 St John's Street, is a distinguished 18th-century building. This tall three-storey structure is constructed of chequer brick and stands on a moulded stone plinth. It features narrow red brick vertical dressings around the windows and rusticated stone pilasters that extend the full height at the corners, framing the central bay. The building is topped with a hipped slate roof and has a moulded and bracketed cornice, along with a brick parapet that includes moulded stone coping and stone blocks above the pilasters.
The façade includes five windows on the upper floors and four on the ground floor, with a central door that has six fielded panels and a rectangular fanlight with four oval panes. This door is set within a stone bolection architrave surround, which is adorned with carved scroll brackets that support a stone cornice and a broken pediment featuring a central ball. All windows are framed with bolection surrounds and stone sills, while the ground and first-floor windows have additional curved friezes and cornices, contributing to the building's impressive appearance.
Barford House is part of a notable group that includes Nos 23 to 41 St John's Street and a section of the National Westminster Old Bank in Market Place, enhancing the architectural significance of the area.
Local climate
Barford House 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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