Alexander House is a Grade II* listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. House. 1 related planning application.

Alexander House

WRENN ID
solemn-roof-plover
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 December 1960
Type
House
Address
Alexander House, High Street, Corsham, SN13 0HQ
OS grid reference
ST 871 703
Coordinates
51.43229, -2.18554
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Alexander House is a Grade II* listed house from the early 18th century, featuring an ashlar front and stone-tiled roofs with end wall stacks on the main range. The building has a formal three-storey façade with five windows, characterized by channelled angle pilasters, a raised plinth, and moulded courses over the ground and first floors. The moulded cornice is broken forward at the pilasters, and there is a top parapet with angle piers and five fielded panels. All windows have raised bead-moulded surrounds with keystones and fielded apron panels. The attic features four-pane windows, while the first and ground floors have eight-pane windows in segmental-headed surrounds. The former central door has been replaced with an eight-pane window, which also has a segmental-headed surround, complete with carving on the keystone and spandrels, and an ornamented frieze under a hood on carved brackets. The south wall is rendered.

At the rear, there is a large three-storey range that is also rendered, featuring three coped dormer gables. The first bay includes two superimposed long stair-lights that are segmental-headed with keystones and hoodmoulds above a projecting porch. Beyond this, two dormer gables have two-light flush cyma-moulded windows with hoodmoulds, while the first floor has a combination of three-light, single light, and three-light similar mullion windows under a single hoodmould, along with ground floor 20th-century windows. A cross range at the west end is constructed of rubble stone and has paired stacks at the south end. The west side features flush cyma-moulded mullion windows, with three-light windows on the first floor and four-light windows on the ground floor, and an altered two-light window in the north end attic, all with hoodmoulds. There is a door on the first floor of the west side. In the angle between the front range and the main rear wing, there is a long early 19th-century block with a hipped roof and a large 24-pane window on the west end of the first floor. The west end of the main rear wing has a raised bead-moulded doorcase with a hood on carved brackets and a six-panel door.

Inside, the front range retains original panelled shutters, and the rear staircase features twisted balusters and a panelled dado.

Local climate

Alexander House 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 — 17 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
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