Kingsdown House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 July 1985. House. 1 related planning application.

Kingsdown House

WRENN ID
waiting-alcove-sparrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 July 1985
Type
House
Address
Kingsdown House, 7, Lower Kingsdown Road, Box, SN13 8AX
OS grid reference
ST 817 677
Coordinates
51.40876, -2.26388
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Kingsdown House is an early 19th-century house, built upon an earlier structure. The front is constructed of painted ashlar with a stone-tiled roof, coped gables, and end wall stacks. The building has two storeys at the front and three at the rear, with a four-window front range featuring a moulded cornice and parapet. The upper floor has three 12-pane sash windows, alongside an escape door. The ground floor has two 12-pane sash windows, a centre entrance door, and an open segmental arch to the left. To the left is a section of rubble stonework with a coped gable and end wall stack, containing a single bead-moulded mullion window of 18th-century style. The rear of the main range features a small fragment of dripmoulding at the ground floor right end. A rubble stone building with a mullion window is attached to the left. The building was originally part of the extensions to the private asylum at Kingsdown House, which was established in the 18th century and documented as being in existence for 200 years in 1815.

Local climate

Kingsdown House 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 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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