Ashton House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1987. A C17 Residential. 2 related planning applications.
Ashton House
- WRENN ID
- lunar-chancel-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1987
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- Ashton House, 111, High Street, Worton, SN10 5RU
- OS grid reference
- ST 975 574
- Coordinates
- 51.31586, -2.03617
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ashton House is a 17th-century timber-framed house, substantially altered in the early 19th century. It has a hipped thatched roof, a stack at the west end, and a ridge stack. The house is two storeys high. The ground floor has a timber frame built on a rubble plinth, while the first floor is roughcast with a moulded timber eaves cornice. Three first-floor windows have 12 panes each, with margin lights and exposed window boxes. The ground floor has a casement pair, and a pair of triple casements on either side of a 6-panel door, which is sheltered by a timber pent roof supported by brackets. The timber framing is square, with painted brick panels. A thatched rear wing extends to the northeast.
Local climate
Ashton House 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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