2 and 3, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 May 1977. Hotel, shop. 6 related planning applications.
2 and 3, High Street
- WRENN ID
- eastward-keystone-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1977
- Type
- Hotel, shop
- Address
- 2 and 3, High Street, Chippenham, SN15 3EP
- OS grid reference
- ST 919 733
- Coordinates
- 51.4587, -2.11676
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 2 and 3 High Street is a hotel that has been converted into shops, dating from around 1835. The building is constructed of limestone ashlar with part-rendered rubblestone at the rear wing. It features a double-pitched slate roof with moulded ashlar stacks and stone coping on the gable ends. The structure has a double-depth plan with a rear left wing.
The exterior is two storeys high and has an eight-window range. A wide semicircular-arched carriage entrance, which is now glazed, rises one-and-a-half storeys and has chamfered arrises. This entrance is flanked by full-height splayed pilasters topped with pyramidal caps above the blocking course. There is a band at the first-floor level. Above the arch, there is a three-light window with semicircular-arched lights and 4/4-pane sash windows, along with a sill band that spans the central bay. To the right, a semicircular-arched doorway, which is now a window, is situated below a shallow splayed oriel window that has similar but taller windows. On the left side of the first floor, there are paired plate-glass sash windows beneath a bracketed cornice. The cornice and blocking course extend across the facade, with a raised plaque in the center that reads "1835."
The rear wing has a roof that is hipped to the back and features a blank ashlar wall on the left side, which has 16 iron rings for harnessing horses. The right-hand wall is rendered and includes a planked door leading to a gabled loading bay, a three-light window to the left with 12/12-pane sashes, and various 20th-century windows and doors, along with four harnessing rings on the right side.
Historically, the building was mentioned in 1703 as previously being known as the New Inn.
Local climate
2 and 3, High Street receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- 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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