26, Church Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1985. A C18 Cottage, restaurant.
26, Church Street
- WRENN ID
- inner-alcove-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1985
- Type
- Cottage, restaurant
- Address
- 26, Church Street, Melksham
- OS grid reference
- ST 903 637
- Coordinates
- 51.37299, -2.1396
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 26 Church Street is a detached cottage that has been converted into a restaurant. It dates from the 18th century, with alterations made in the 19th century. The building is constructed of rubblestone and features a stone slate roof with coped verges, as well as a saddlestone and an ashlar stack with a moulded cap. It has a gable end facing the street and is two storeys high with two windows.
The entrance door, which is now located on the right side of the building, is a 20th-century addition. To the right of the entrance, there is a casement window, while the first floor has a 2-light cyma-mullioned window to the right and a sash window in a chamfered case to the left. The gable end has a pair of 4-pane sash windows in a beaded case with a central mullion on the ground floor, and above, there is one 4-pane sash window in a beaded case. The left side of the building features a central door in a chamfered case with a 2-light cyma-mullioned window to the left, and the first floor has another 2-light cyma-mullioned window.
The interior has not been inspected. There is a single-storey extension at the rear, which has blocked and inserted windows. This building is included for its group value with No 32, as both may have been associated with the wool industry, along with No 34.
Local climate
26, Church 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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