York Guest House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. Hotel. 1 related planning application.
York Guest House
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-pillar-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- York Guest House, 26a and 28, Church Walk, Melksham, SN12 6LY
- OS grid reference
- ST 903 639
- Coordinates
- 51.3741, -2.1397
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The York Guest House, now a hotel, is a late 18th-century house with a rear wing, located on Church Walk in Melksham. The main house is built of painted brick with ashlar quoins and dressed stone returns, having a stone slate roof with coped verges and ashlar stacks. The rear wing, No. 26a, projects from No. 28 and is two storeys high with one window. It features a chamfered door case, and two-light cym-mullioned windows on both the ground and first floors.
No. 28 is a symmetrical two-storey and attic house with a six-window front. The central entrance features an eight-panelled Venetian door with a fanlight, set within a finely reeded arched door case with a keystone, and narrow sash side-lights in reeded cases. A good cast-iron boot-scraper is located to the right of the door. Either side of the doorway are 16-pane sashes in beaded architraves. A plat band runs along the front. The first floor has five 12-pane sashes in beaded architraves, along with one smaller, later sash. Two large hipped dormers contain three-light beaded mullioned windows. The right return displays a three-light beaded mullioned window to the ground floor and attic floor. The left return and a single-storey rear wing incorporate a chamfered door case with a flat stone hood on brackets, and cym-mullioned windows. A two-light beaded mullioned window is present on the first floor.
Inside, the house features round-arched openings and a stone fireplace with a staff moulding and a moulded cornice.
Local climate
York Guest House receives an average of 830 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 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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