Old Railway Farmhouse the Siding is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1985. Cottage.
Old Railway Farmhouse the Siding
- WRENN ID
- fading-quartz-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Railway Farmhouse the Siding, 541, Semington Road, Melksham Without
- OS grid reference
- ST 900 615
- Coordinates
- 51.35301, -2.14367
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Railway Farmhouse and The Siding is a pair of cottages built in the late 18th century to early 19th century. The front is made of ashlar stone, while the sides and rear are dressed stone, topped with a Welsh slate roof and ashlar stacks. The building has two storeys and features four windows. There are two 20th-century doors with flat stone hoods supported by brackets, and to the left of each door is a 16-pane sash window in a plain case. On the first floor, there are four 16-pane sashes in plain cases, along with a plat band. The roof has deep eaves. The sides of the building do not have windows, and the rear includes a projecting wing with two windows that have sashes; there is also a 20th-century extension on the rear left. Inside, the cottage features 19th-century plank panelling and a large fireplace with a timber lintel. This building is said to have been a public house located beside the dismantled Devizes branch of the Great Western Railway and is situated on the east bank of the disused Wilts and Berkshire Canal, dating from 1796 to 1810.
Local climate
Old Railway Farmhouse the Siding 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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