Kingsdown House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 July 1985. House. 1 related planning application.
Kingsdown House
- WRENN ID
- quartered-buttress-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 July 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Kingsdown House, 3, Lower Kingsdown Road, Box, SN13 8AX
- OS grid reference
- ST 817 678
- Coordinates
- 51.409, -2.26396
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kingsdown House is an early 19th-century house, originally built as part of the extensions to the private asylum at Kingsdown House, possibly as a doctor's residence. The front is constructed of ashlar with a slate roof, and features a coped west gable and a hipped east gable. There are north wallface and south-east corner stacks. The house is three storeys high, with a two-window front range. The north front has sash windows in flush, chamfered Tudor arched surrounds: 15-pane upper sashes, 12-pane first floor sashes, and a ground floor blank opening. A four-panel door is set within a matching surround, accompanied by a stone-tiled trellis porch and a 12-pane sash window to the right. The east front has a two-window range, with intersecting glazing bars to the heads of the ground and first floor windows. The south front mirrors the surrounds of the first and second-floor openings, but a door is located on the second floor to the right. Twelve-pane sashes are present throughout.
Local climate
Kingsdown 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 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2012
- 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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