The Unicorn Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. Public house.
The Unicorn Public House
- WRENN ID
- endless-moat-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Unicorn Public House, 59, Bath Road, Melksham
- OS grid reference
- ST 902 642
- Coordinates
- 51.37733, -2.14125
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Unicorn Public House is a pair of houses that have been converted into a public house, dating from the early 18th century. The building features painted ashlar and a stone slate roof with a coped verge on the left side. It is two stories tall with an attic and has a symmetrical front with four windows. The entrance door is located in a 20th-century flat-roofed extension that is of no special interest. There are blocked doors at the center of each half, which have staff-moulded cases. On either side of these doors are 16-pane sash windows. A string course runs along the first floor, above which are four 2-light cyma-mullioned windows with casements. The attic features another string course and two Cotswold-type gables, each with one 2-light flat mullioned window and coped verges with saddlestones. The rear of the building is constructed of rubblestone and has a double-Roman tiled roof, along with a single-storey extension featuring a 2-span gabled roof that dates to the 19th century. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Unicorn Public 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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