59, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. House.
59, High Street
- WRENN ID
- other-thatch-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1960
- Type
- House
- Address
- 59, High Street, Corsham
- OS grid reference
- ST 872 705
- Coordinates
- 51.43377, -2.18477
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 59 is a 17th-century house located on High Street in Corsham. It is constructed from rubble stone and features a stone tiled roof with a stack at the north end. The building stands two and a half storeys tall and has a canted front. On the left side, there is a dormer gable that contains a 2-light recessed chamfered mullion window. The main facade has a three-window range with dripcourses above, with the left side being canted. The first floor has three 2-light recessed chamfered mullion windows. On the ground floor, there is a 12-pane sash window next to a door that is set in a chamfered surround and has a hood supported by brackets. To the right, there are two 2-light recessed cyma-moulded mullion windows. At the rear, there is a rubble stone wing that includes a 2-light recessed chamfered mullion-and-transom window with a hoodmould on the end wall.
Local climate
59, High Street receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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