The Wilderness is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1972. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Wilderness
- WRENN ID
- burning-hearth-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Wilderness, Shady Bower, Salisbury, SP1 2RE
- OS grid reference
- SU 151 299
- Coordinates
- 51.06824, -1.78555
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Wilderness is a small L-shaped plan house built around 1830-1840, likely an enlargement of an earlier cottage. The part of the house closest to the road is two storeys high, rendered, and features a low-pitched hipped slate roof with flat eaves. There is one sash window on the first floor and a two-light casement window on the ground floor facing the road.
The east front has a similar window on the first floor with late glazing. The ground floor includes a canted bay window with moulded surrounds, a sash window at the front with later glazing, and a moulded cornice. To the north, there is a one-storey and attic L-shaped block, with the east front tile-hung and a gable end slate roof. The gables feature semi-dormer windows with pierced bargeboards, two sash windows with intact glazing bars, and moulded surrounds.
On the ground floor, there are two shallow canted bay windows with two-light casements at the front, also with moulded cornices. A central panelled door is located under a trellis porch. The wing to the west has similar bargeboards over a first-floor window. The overall appearance of the house is picturesque.
Local climate
The Wilderness receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 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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