Willow House with Gate Piers and Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. A C18 House. 1 related planning application.
Willow House with Gate Piers and Walls
- WRENN ID
- fossil-lantern-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 December 1960
- Type
- House
- Address
- Willow House with Gate Piers and Walls, the Green, Biddestone & Slaughterford, SN14 7DG
- OS grid reference
- ST 864 735
- Coordinates
- 51.46084, -2.19664
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willow House, dated 1730, was built for S. Aldbourne. It is constructed of ashlar with a stone tiled roof, coped gables, and ashlar end wall stacks. The formal south front presents a three-story, five-window arrangement, featuring channelled angle pilasters, a plinth, two string courses, a moulded cornice, a parapet, and a small central pediment with a cartouche dated 1730. The windows are segment-headed, set within raised moulded surrounds with a bead-moulded inner edge. Attic windows have 6 panes, while ground and first-floor windows have 12 panes and keystones to their surrounds. The central first-floor window is round-headed, with a keystone, imposts, and moulded spandrels to its surround. The doorcase is segmental arched with a keystone and a broken pediment on scroll brackets, sheltering a fielded panel door with a segmental overlight. Four stone steps, with 20th-century iron rails, lead to the entrance.
Attached to the house is a coped stone garden wall that rises up to the house and to central stone gate piers topped with caps and ball finials. 20th-century wrought iron gates are in place. A two-story range, dated 1908 and of no particular architectural interest, is attached to the rear west side.
The interior includes a fine panelled room on the ground floor to the right, and a stone vaulted cellar.
Local climate
Willow House with Gate Piers and Walls receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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