Overton House with Front Walls and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1987. House.

Overton House with Front Walls and Railings

WRENN ID
stark-hinge-nettle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 December 1987
Type
House
Address
Overton House with Front Walls and Railings, High Street, Codford
OS grid reference
ST 965 399
Coordinates
51.15871, -2.05056
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Overton House is a detached house built around 1800, with alterations made in the early 20th century. It features a header bond brick construction with chamfered stone quoins and a hipped roof covered in Welsh slate, supported by deep eaves and brick stacks. The house is two stories tall and has three windows across its front.

The entrance includes a two-story brick porch from the 20th century, which has double-glazed doors and an inner door with a fanlight. On either side of the porch, there are 20-pane sash windows with flat brick arches. The first floor has a 20-pane sash window on either side of the porch, along with a tripartite plate glass sash window and a balustraded parapet. The left side of the house has a 20-pane sash window on the ground floor and two 16-pane sashes on the first floor. The right side is finished in dressed limestone and features 12-pane sash windows. At the rear, there is a gabled wing with 20-pane sashes, while the main range has round-headed fixed and blind windows.

Inside, the house retains original joinery, including six-panelled doors in moulded architraves, a staircase with cast-iron balusters and a wreathed moulded handrail, and window shutters. The front boundary is marked by an irregular bond brick wall topped with pitched stone coping and cast-iron spearhead railings, with a single central gate. To the right of the house, there is a rubble stone and brick wall that returns to the corner.

Local climate

Overton House with Front Walls and Railings 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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