Urchfont House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1988. House. 4 related planning applications.
Urchfont House
- WRENN ID
- leaning-cobble-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Urchfont House, SN10 4RP
- OS grid reference
- SU 040 569
- Coordinates
- 51.31184, -1.94274
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Urchfont House is a house dating from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It is rendered and colourwashed, with a slate roof. The symmetrical front elevation has five bays and two rooms in depth. A six-panelled door is centrally located, accessed by two rounded steps beneath a stone moulded canopy supported by elongated consoles. A plat band runs along the front. The windows are sixteen-paned sashes within raised surrounds; the window in the fifth bay from the left is blind. Gable stacks are present.
Local climate
Urchfont House 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 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2015
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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