The Farmers' Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1978. Hotel.

The Farmers' Hotel

WRENN ID
long-cobble-mist
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 March 1978
Type
Hotel
Address
The Farmers' Hotel, 1, Silver Street, Warminster
OS grid reference
ST 871 451
Coordinates
51.20515, -2.18583
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Farmers' Hotel is a mid-19th century building located at the corner of Silver Street and Sambourne Road in Warminster. The main block is three storeys high with angled corners, constructed of painted brick featuring ashlar cill bands on the first and second floors and ashlar lintels. It has a hipped slate roof with a gable end chimney on the right side. The building includes one range of windows at each angle and an additional range on the north angle, with a blocked window on the first floor of the chamfered corner that has painted signs. The windows are glazing bar sashes, with single hung sashes on the first floor. The ground floor has two modern segmental windows that are wide with many panes, and a small doorway to the right.

The entrance on the chamfered corner is notable for its ashlar surround and features excellent lettering on the lintels that reads "Alfred Cockerell, Licenced dealer. Tea, Coffee, Pepper, Tobacco, Snuff, 1860." The keystone above the entrance displays the name of the current proprietor and the date 1970. To the right, there is a two-storey 18th-century wing, also made of painted brick, with a band above the ground floor; the right-hand part is painted. This wing has two windows on the second floor and one on the first floor, all of which are glazing bar sashes except for the left-hand first-floor window. It features moulded wooden architraves and a tiled roof with a brick ridge chimney. There are various extensions along Sambourne Road, which include tiled roofs and a large segmental-headed coach arch that is now glazed, leading to a wide yard entry on the left.

Local climate

The Farmers' Hotel receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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