2, King Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1985. A C18 Cottage, shop.
2, King Street
- WRENN ID
- grey-spire-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1985
- Type
- Cottage, shop
- Address
- 2, King Street, Melksham, SN12 6HD
- OS grid reference
- ST 904 635
- Coordinates
- 51.37091, -2.13849
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 2 King Street is a cottage that has been converted into a shop. It dates from the early 18th century and is constructed of plastered rubblestone with a double Roman tiled roof. The building has two storeys and an attic, featuring a three-window arrangement. The ground floor has a 20th-century shop front with an early 20th-century door located to the left. On the first floor, there are three 2-light cyma-moulded casements. A single hipped dormer is present in the roof.
Local climate
2, King Street 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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