Pickwick End is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. House. 1 related planning application.
Pickwick End
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-floor-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1960
- Type
- House
- Address
- Pickwick End, 23, Corsham, SN13 0JB
- OS grid reference
- ST 863 707
- Coordinates
- 51.43516, -2.19705
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house dating from the mid to late 18th century, constructed of ashlar and coursed rubble stone, with stone-tiled hipped mansard roofs. It has two ashlar chimney stacks on the north ridge and one on the south. The house is two storeys and has an attic, with a five-window frontage to the west and a three-window frontage to the south. The formal west and south frontages are ashlar, featuring a raised plinth, band, moulded cornice, and parapet. They contain twelve-pane sash windows; the west front has five windows, and the south front has three, with a central blank window. Iron flower balconies are present to all upper windows and one ground floor window on the south side. The main entrance is a six-panel door set within a moulded architrave with a pediment supported by brackets, located centrally on the west front. Three dormers face west, and two face south.
The north and east sides are of rubble stone without a parapet. The north side has a three-window range; to the right are twelve-pane sashes, with an upper sash featuring a flower balcony. Centrally are bead-moulded two-light windows within architraves, with cornices and leaded lights. To the left is a hipped roof ashlar addition with a north-facing door and stone steps leading up to it. Dormers are present on the west front’s outer bays, and a small centre dormer is also present. The east side has a projecting wing to the right with an upper twelve-pane sash and a flower balcony above paired twelve-pane sashes. A tower has been added to the angle between the main range and this wing. The main range has a stair-light window and a one-window range to the left, all with twelve-pane sashes. Flush quoins are present.
Inside, a closed string staircase features column newels, turned balusters, and a moulded rail. The front ground floor rooms have plain moulded cornices and bead-moulded fireplaces.
Local climate
Pickwick End 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2007
- 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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