The Homestead is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1987. House. 9 related planning applications.
The Homestead
- WRENN ID
- proud-outpost-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Homestead, Plough Lane, Marston, SN10 5SR
- OS grid reference
- ST 967 567
- Coordinates
- 51.31007, -2.0474
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Homestead is a 17th-century house that has been altered. It features a timber-frame structure with painted brick and a thatched roof that is hipped at the southwest angle. There is a stack at the north end of the building, and it has two storeys.
The front of the house has a long eyebrow over two pairs of casement windows. The pair on the right is positioned above exposed heavy timbers of a former crosswing gable, which includes an angle-braced tie-beam. On the ground floor, there is another pair of casement windows, and to the left, a framed plank door is set in a lean-to tiled porch. The lintel above the door is likely reused from a staircase and is dated IH 1721. Additionally, there is a casement pair on the ground floor. To the left, there is a rubble stone chimney wall. The main range's rear wall also features an eyebrow, and the crosswing has a half-hipped rear gable.
Local climate
The Homestead receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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