26, Westmead Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1978. Cottage. 6 related planning applications.

26, Westmead Lane

WRENN ID
fossil-loft-crag
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 June 1978
Type
Cottage
Address
26, Westmead Lane, Chippenham, SN15 3HZ
OS grid reference
ST 919 731
Coordinates
51.45689, -2.11712
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

26 Westmead Lane is a cottage that was formerly the rear wing of Westmead House. It dates from the early to mid-18th century and was restored around 1990. The building is constructed of rendered limestone rubble with a painted ashlar rear wing and features a steep-pitched 20th-century pantile roof with stacks on the left side. It has a rhomboid two-unit plan with a rear wing.

The exterior is two storeys high with an attic and has a two-window range. The rear wing likely served as a former service outshut. On the first floor, there are roll-moulded raised surrounds to 19th-century two-light casement windows at eaves level. The ground floor features 20th-century windows and a door to the left. The rear of the building has a gabled roof on one half and a pent roof on the other, with various windows.

Inside, a chamfered axial beam spans the entire building. The left-hand room has a stone-flagged floor and a late 19th-century cast-iron kitchen range. In the rear left-hand room, which is part of the former service outshut, there is a well beneath plate glass in the centre. Beneath the rear right room is a barrel-vaulted cellar with a stone floor and steps. The first floor has some exposed timber studding, and the attic features a three-bay collar-beam roof with two rows of heavy tenoned purlins and a notched ridge.

Local climate

26, Westmead Lane receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 6 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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