Rose and Unicorn House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1986. House. 1 related planning application.

Rose and Unicorn House

WRENN ID
scattered-eave-reed
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 August 1986
Type
House
Address
Rose and Unicorn House, 11, Corsham, SN13 9QF
OS grid reference
ST 886 705
Coordinates
51.43362, -2.16434
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Rose and Unicorn House is a house dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, constructed of rubble stone with a stone-tiled roof, featuring ridge and south end stacks and a coped south gable. The building has two storeys and an 'L'-shaped plan. The west front has a four-window range and was formerly two cottages. It includes a coved eaves cornice, four first-floor three-light recessed ovolo-moulded mullion windows with hoodmoulds, and a ground floor door to the left with a hood on brackets. There is a single light and a 12-pane window in a moulded surround, followed by a door in a moulded architrave with a pediment on brackets, and two three-light mullion windows with hoodmoulds and relieving arches, one ovolo-moulded and one recessed cyma-moulded.

The rear of the house shows a straight joint between two sections. The left section features flush cornerstones and an off-centre curved stair tower with a stone-tiled roof that extends into a gable. It has a range of three-light windows to the left, with one ovolo-moulded above and a recessed cyma-moulded window with a relieving arch below, both having hoodmoulds. To the right, there is a two-light ovolo-moulded window and a hoodmould over a door with a hood on brackets. The right section has one ground floor two-light recessed cyma-moulded window with a hoodmould. The rear wing, likely from the 18th century, has a door to the left and a two-window range of flush cyma-moulded two-light windows with dripstones. It also features an east end stack and a bread oven.

Inside, the north half of the front range has a massive timber-lintel Tudor-arched fireplace and a chamfered spine beam. The south half contains a bolection-moulded stone fireplace with a shelf and fielded panelling up to dado level. The walls in this area and above are stamped with a cross motif featuring a central rose and four unicorns. Upstairs, the south end has a Tudor-arched fireplace with a fluted frieze and a stone shelf. The house is said to date from 1648.

Local climate

Rose and Unicorn House receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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