Avon Bridge House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1978. Warehouse, factory, office. 16 related planning applications.
Avon Bridge House
- WRENN ID
- errant-crypt-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1978
- Type
- Warehouse, factory, office
- Address
- Avon Bridge House, Bath Road, Chippenham, SN15 2BB
- OS grid reference
- ST 918 733
- Coordinates
- 51.45876, -2.11835
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Avon Bridge House is a former warehouse and factory, now used as offices, built around 1873 with later rebuilding of an earlier cloth factory. The structure is made of squared coursed limestone rubble with freestone dressings and features a slate roof. It consists of two rectangular blocks, with a part of a wall from a third block to the east that has been demolished.
The exterior is two storeys high with an attic; the left block has a ten-window range, while the taller right block has an eighteen-window range. The windows feature 20th-century glazing and tall segmental arches with rusticated architraves. Both blocks have similar quoins and jambs. The left block has a steeper roof pitch, a blank left return, and a restored pyramidal bellcote. The right block has stone coping over stepped freestone blocks and includes one window in the attic, three on the first floor, and one on the ground floor.
The interior has not been inspected but is noted to retain original cast-iron columns and beams. Historically, the site was acquired in 1873 by the National Anglo-Swiss Milk Company for their first factory in Britain.
Local climate
Avon Bridge House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 16 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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