Red Cross House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1988. House.
Red Cross House
- WRENN ID
- rusted-vault-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Red Cross House, High Street, Semington
- OS grid reference
- ST 897 605
- Coordinates
- 51.34385, -2.14801
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Red Cross House is a detached house, now used as offices, dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of limestone ashlar and features a hipped asbestos slate roof with gable end stone stacks that have moulded cappings. The building is designed in an L-plan and is two storeys high with three windows across the front. The central entrance consists of a four-panelled door set within a Tuscan portico, flanked by 16-pane sash windows. There is a plat band at the sills of the first-floor windows, which also contain three 16-pane sashes.
On the left side, the building has additional 16-pane sashes and a six-panelled door. There is a single-storey addition from the later 19th century attached to the right side. At the rear, there is a lower two-storey service wing that features a nine-panelled door in a moulded architrave with a flat stone hood supported by brackets, along with 12-pane sashes. Inside, the house retains six-panelled doors in moulded architraves, a staircase with stick balusters, and window shutters. It is noted that the building was used as the rectory until around 1960.
Local climate
Red Cross House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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