No 2 South Place is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1986. House.

No 2 South Place

WRENN ID
eastward-cobble-juniper
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
1 August 1986
Type
House
Address
No 2 South Place, Corsham
OS grid reference
ST 872 702
Coordinates
51.43075, -2.18471
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 2 South Place is a house dating from the late 17th century that has been altered. It is constructed of rubble stone and features a stone tiled roof, with a coped west gable and a ridge stack. The building is one and a half storeys high, with a large gable on the right side and a dormer gable on the left.

The right gable has an upper 12-pane sash window and paired 8-pane sash windows on the ground floor, all set in a raised moulded surround with a plain dripstone above. The central door is framed by a flush moulded surround and has a hood supported by brackets. The left side features an unmoulded 2-light window in the dormer gable above an altered 2-light mullion window, which also has a plain dripstone.

There are flush quoins on the left side, followed by an extension to the west that has a door on the south side and a small window. A first-floor window at the west end has casements set within a 3-light ovolo-moulded mullion window, topped with a hoodmould.

Local climate

No 2 South Place 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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