8, King Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1985. House.
8, King Street
- WRENN ID
- gentle-terrace-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- 8, King Street, Melksham, SN12 6HD
- OS grid reference
- ST 904 635
- Coordinates
- 51.3707, -2.13849
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 8 King Street is a house that has been converted into a shop, dating from the early 18th century. It is built of square rubblestone and features a double Roman tiled roof with coped verges and saddlestones, along with a concrete stack. The building is two stories high and has four windows. On the right side, there is a 19th-century shop front with a cornice supported by acanthus brackets. To the left of the center, there is a blocked moulded door case and a three-light cyma-mullioned window, with a string course raised above the door lintel. The first floor has four two-light cyma-mullioned windows. The rear of the building is rendered and includes 20th-century windows.
Local climate
8, King 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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