54, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1986. House.
54, High Street
- WRENN ID
- fallen-soffit-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 August 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- 54, High Street, Corsham, SN13 0HF
- OS grid reference
- ST 872 704
- Coordinates
- 51.43316, -2.18481
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 54 is a 17th-century house located on High Street in Corsham. The building is constructed of pebbledashed rubble stone and features a stone tiled roof with a coped north gable and a rebuilt south end stack. It has two storeys and an attic.
The ground floor has a 19th-century shop front, which includes a central door on the west front flanked by plate glass shop windows on an ashlar base. The shop front is rebated at the north-west angle for an iron column, with a projecting shop window on the north side, also on an ashlar base, and a fascia with a dentil cornice above both fronts.
On the first floor, there are paired 19th-century eight-pane sash windows to the right of the west front. The north-west corner stones are exposed, and the north gable end features recessed ovolo-moulded mullion windows with hoodmoulds: a three-light window with a relieving arch over it on the first floor and a two-light window in the attic.
At the rear, there is a wing with an east end stack and on the north side, there are three-light and two-light flush cyma-moulded mullion windows on the first floor, along with an ashlar addition to the ground floor. The roof is covered with concrete tiles.
Local climate
54, High Street 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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