Canonbury House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 July 1987. Villa. 1 related planning application.
Canonbury House
- WRENN ID
- watchful-pier-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 July 1987
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Canonbury House, Hindon Lane, Tisbury, SP3 6PZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 944 297
- Coordinates
- 51.06734, -2.08058
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Canonbury House is a detached villa built around 1870. It features stretcher bond yellow brick with terracotta dressings and has a hipped Welsh slate roof, along with yellow brick stacks topped with terracotta cappings. The building is designed in an Italianate style and has an L-plan layout.
The entrance includes a five-panelled door with a semi-circular fanlight set in a pilastered case with terracotta capitals. To the right of the door is a segmental-headed plate glass sash window, flanked by rusticated pilasters with terracotta capitals and a foliated frieze. On the first floor, there are two round-arched sash windows above the door, and a round-arched plate-glass sash window to the right, both featuring guilloche ornamentation on their architraves. To the left, there is a slightly projecting bay with a segmental sash window on the ground floor and a round-arched sash window on the first floor, matching the earlier details.
The house has deep eaves supported by paired cast-iron brackets and a segmental-headed dormer in the attic with an oculus to the left. The right side of the house features a two-storey canted bay with segmental-headed sashes on the ground floor and round-headed sashes on the first floor, adorned with terracotta decoration, and a 20th-century casement window to the left. The left side includes tripartite and plate glass sashes, a four-panelled door to the left, and an attached 20th-century garage with a hipped roof.
At the rear, there are 20th-century casements and a conservatory, along with a round-headed sash window on the first floor. A two-storey service wing to the right has a four-pane sash window and a three-light casement. The interior retains original features such as a staircase with two turned balusters per tread and shaped tread-ends, a stained glass top-light above, four-panelled doors in moulded architraves, marble fireplaces, and plaster ceiling cornices. Canonbury House is noted as a good example of a villa in Tisbury, particularly following the opening of the railway to Tisbury in 1859.
Local climate
Canonbury House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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