Number 38, 39 and 40 and Attached Walls and Gate Piers is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1978. Terrace, shop. 1 related planning application.
Number 38, 39 and 40 and Attached Walls and Gate Piers
- WRENN ID
- pale-banister-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1978
- Type
- Terrace, shop
- Address
- Number 38, 39 and 40 and Attached Walls and Gate Piers, New Road, Chippenham, SN15 1HL
- OS grid reference
- ST 918 737
- Coordinates
- 51.46251, -2.11851
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 38, 39, and 40 are a terrace of two houses and a shop with a flat above, built in the mid-19th century. The buildings are constructed of limestone ashlar and feature a hipped slate roof with moulded ashlar stacks at the party walls. The terrace has a double-depth plan and is two storeys high with a seven-window range.
A continuous moulded string course creates hoods on brackets over the two right-hand houses, with bracketed sills on the first floor and pilasters at the corners and between the party walls. Number 38, on the right, has a two-window range with margin panes in the plate-glass sash windows and a door featuring two vertical semicircular-arched glazed panels and an overlight. Number 39, in the center, is similar but has 20th-century windows and a door. Number 40, on the left, has a three-window range. Below the two left-hand windows, there is a projecting shop front with a parapet that has urn finials at the corners. A former carriage entrance to the right of the shop has been filled in with another shop.
The front gardens of numbers 38 and 39 are enclosed by ashlar walls and pyramidal-capped piers. This terrace is part of a group of houses built on New Road following the arrival of the railway in 1840-41.
Local climate
Number 38, 39 and 40 and Attached Walls and Gate Piers receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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