Washmeres House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1985. House. 3 related planning applications.
Washmeres House
- WRENN ID
- narrow-plinth-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Washmeres House, 3, Colerne, SN14 8DQ
- OS grid reference
- ST 817 709
- Coordinates
- 51.43731, -2.26463
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Washmeres House is an 18th-century house in Colerne. It is built of rubble stone with a Bridgwater tile roof, featuring coped gables and end wall stacks. The house is double-fronted and three stories high. The top floor has two four-pane windows, likely added in the late 18th century. The first floor features two flush two-light mullion windows with cyma-moulded detailing and dripstones. The ground floor has a similar three-light window with a dripstone, a six-panel door set within a chamfered flush doorcase with a hood on brackets, and a two-light recessed ovolo-moulded window on the right side, also with a truncated hoodmould. A rear outshut is present.
Local climate
Washmeres House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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