23 High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1979. Friends meeting house.
23 High Street
- WRENN ID
- peeling-cobalt-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1979
- Type
- Friends meeting house
- Address
- 23 High Street, Devizes, SN10 1AT
- OS grid reference
- SU 004 614
- Coordinates
- 51.35174, -1.99477
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
23 High Street is a former Friends Meeting House built or rebuilt in 1701-1702, replacing a building erected in 1689-1690. The site has been owned by the Friends since the mid-17th century and is set back from the High Street behind a 1920s ashlar screen wall, located on the west side of a former forecourt.
The east front features one and a half storeys of red brick with untreated stone quoins, a wide coved plaster eaves cornice, and a half hipped tiled roof with a plain gabled dormer. It has two tall, high-set windows with flat arched heads and a central doorway with windows above. The south wall is rendered and includes a projecting staircase wing, with one bay extension to the original two bays at the rear, where the brickwork is exposed.
Inside, there is a single room with an attic floor above the staircase half landing, which provides a primitive formerly shuttered gallery. The top flight of stairs features substantial early 16th-century turned balusters.
Local climate
23 High Street receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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