24,26,28, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. Shops. 2 related planning applications.
24,26,28, High Street
- WRENN ID
- standing-cobalt-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Shops
- Address
- 24,26,28, High Street, Melksham, SN12 6LA
- OS grid reference
- ST 904 637
- Coordinates
- 51.37317, -2.13789
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos 24, 26, and 28 High Street are a group of three shops dating from the mid-18th century. The buildings are constructed of ashlar stone with rusticated quoins and feature a hipped roof covered in Welsh slate. They are two stories tall with an attic and have seven windows across the front.
The central doorway for No 26 includes a fanlight and a moulded architrave with a keystone that extends up to a moulded string course. To the right of this doorway is a blocked door adorned with a scrolled pediment on brackets. The rest of the ground floor has 20th-century shop fronts.
On the first floor, there are seven 12-pane sash windows, each set in moulded architraves with keystones that rise to a moulded eaves cornice. The roof features three flat-roofed dormers with casement windows. Despite the modern shop fronts, this block is recognized as a fine example of 18th-century architecture.
Local climate
24,26,28, High 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 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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