Sparrows Barton is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1986. House.
Sparrows Barton
- WRENN ID
- tired-lancet-auburn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 August 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Sparrows Barton, Corsham
- OS grid reference
- ST 889 706
- Coordinates
- 51.43468, -2.15964
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sparrows Barton is a house that dates from the medieval period and the 17th century, constructed of rubble stone with stone-tiled roofs. The building has one-and-a-half and two storeys. The south front features a ridge stack, a gabled cross-wing to the right, and two dormer gables to the left. The cross-wing has a coped gable and three-light ovolo-moulded mullion windows on each floor, both with hoodmoulds. To the left, there is a dormer gable that may be new or rebuilt, which sits above a 20th-century door, and a two-light recessed chamfered mullion window with a hoodmould above a two-light recessed cyma-moulded window.
On the east side, there is a single light window next to the cross-wing, and a projecting gabled wing with a coped gable and ridge stack. This wing has renewed or new two-light ovolo-moulded windows with hoodmoulds at the east end. Beyond this, there is a long range that runs north, featuring a coped north gable and 20th-century mullion-and-transom windows on the east side. The building has been converted from a barn, and the original row of dove-openings can be seen in the rear wall. The former open hall has an arched-braced collar roof, which has been dated to the 14th century.
Local climate
Sparrows Barton 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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