Avon House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1978. A Late C17/Early C18 Farmhouse, offices. 1 related planning application.
Avon House
- WRENN ID
- rough-sandstone-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1978
- Type
- Farmhouse, offices
- Address
- Avon House, Cocklebury Lane, Chippenham, SN15 1GG
- OS grid reference
- ST 926 744
- Coordinates
- 51.46902, -2.10767
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Avon House is a farmhouse that has been converted into offices, dating from the late 17th century to early 18th century. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with freestone quoins and has a rendered front. The roof is covered with concrete tiles and features stone coping and moulded ashlar stacks on four gable ends. The building has an L-shaped plan with a service wing at the rear right.
The exterior is two storeys high and has a four-window range. The left side of the building is lower and features cyma-moulded stone mullions and hoodmoulds above three-light stone-mullioned windows, which have 20th-century casements (with two-light windows on the left return). The main block has plain stone-mullioned windows on the first floor, including a three-light window on the left and two two-light windows on the right. There is a datestone reading "B.E.E.1701" to the left of the central doorway, which has a stone cyma-moulded architrave. This doorway is flanked by 20th-century four-light bay windows with concrete pent roofs. The right return features two- and three-light windows with 20th-century glazing, including first-floor windows on the right that have mullions. The interior has not been inspected but is noted to have been altered.
Local climate
Avon House 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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