Diana's House is a Grade II* listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1953. Gatehouse.

Diana's House

WRENN ID
gaunt-mullion-ash
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 January 1953
Type
Gatehouse
Address
Diana's House, Countess Road, Amesbury
OS grid reference
SU 153 418
Coordinates
51.17571, -1.78185
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Diana's House is a gatehouse to Amesbury Abbey, built in 1600. It is constructed of flint with stone quoins and dressings, featuring fissile stone slate roofs. The building has two storeys and is shaped like a triangular block with an octagonal stair tower attached to the south. It includes moulded string courses and eaves, as well as moulded architraves around 12-pane 18th-century windows. The stair tower consists of four stages with double chamfered square stone windows and has ogee roofs, with a band of fishscale slates on the stair tower. An external ashlar stone stack is located on the south-west face of the main block. Above the four-centred ground floor door, there is an inscription that reads 'Diana, her hous 1600.' Diana is said to have been a mistress of Edward Seymour.

Local climate

Diana's House 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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