The Retreat is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 July 1976. House. 4 related planning applications.
The Retreat
- WRENN ID
- upper-iron-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 July 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Retreat, Holloway Hill, Malmesbury
- OS grid reference
- ST 934 873
- Coordinates
- 51.58524, -2.09585
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Retreat is an early to mid-19th century house, with an extension dating from circa 1864. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with brick gables and lateral stacks, and has a roof covered with stone slate and tile. The house has a double-depth plan and two storeys plus an attic. The original left-hand gable has a gable stack, and the later, wider right-hand gable features a doorway with a tented canopy and a 20th-century glazed door, flanked by lateral stacks. The windows have cambered heads; those in the earlier gable are narrower and include two ground-floor, one first-floor, and one attic window. The later gable has wider windows, all with plate-glass sashes incorporating margin panes within exposed boxes. The interior has been altered; the entrance hall contains a right-hand staircase.
Local climate
The Retreat receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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