Old Alfred House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1978. House.
Old Alfred House
- WRENN ID
- lone-cobble-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Alfred House, 8, Alfred Street, Westbury
- OS grid reference
- ST 874 515
- Coordinates
- 51.26275, -2.18122
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Alfred House, originally one house with No 10A, dates from the 16th century, with most of its structure from the 17th century and some alterations from the late 18th or early 19th century. The building has two storeys and is constructed of brick in an 'L' plan layout, with the range facing north rendered. It features a steeply pitched double purlin pantile roof, while the rear of No 8 has a tiled roof.
No 8 has two ranges of windows, coupled on the right side, with sashes that have glazing bars in the upper sashes. The central entrance has a pedimented door piece with dentil edge mouldings, and the pilasters are fluted and terminate in brackets supporting the pediment, which has guilloche ornamentation. The entrance door is a six-panel design. To the right, there is a lower half-hipped extension.
No 10 interlocks with No 10A and also has an 'L' plan. The range facing west features two windows on each floor, with glazing bars in the upper sashes and moulded frames. Three of these windows have stone lintels and are irregularly placed. The north gable end has paired windows. The entrance has a pedimented door piece similar to that of No 8, and there is a three-light mullion casement above (part of No 10A) along with a six-panel door, of which the upper four panels are glazed. Inside the range facing west, the ground floor retains a fine 16th-century ceiling with two heavily moulded beams and a cross beam.
Local climate
Old Alfred House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% 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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