1, Bank Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1985. Commercial. 5 related planning applications.
1, Bank Street
- WRENN ID
- rough-attic-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1985
- Type
- Commercial
- Address
- 1, Bank Street, Melksham
- OS grid reference
- ST 904 638
- Coordinates
- 51.37356, -2.13812
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 1 Bank Street is a shop and house built in the early 18th century, featuring a late 19th-century facade. The building is constructed of painted ashlar with a stone slate roof. It is the central unit of a block of four, situated between No 3 Bank Street on the right and Nos 53 and 55 High Street on the left.
The structure is two stories high with two windows. The ground floor is vermiculated and includes a central canted bay with columns and scrolled imposts supporting roll-moulded round-arched windows. To the left, there is a round-arched door on columns with scrolled imposts and a cornice above. To the right, there is a 20th-century shop front.
On the first floor, there is a central group of three stilted segmental-arched windows in roll-moulded cases with foliated capitals and a slightly projecting panel. To the right, there is a single stilted segmental-arched window with a roll-moulded case. The building features a moulded cornice and blocking course at the roof, along with a single hipped dormer.
Local climate
1, Bank Street receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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