Spinkes Printing Works is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1978. Former chapel, industrial premises.
Spinkes Printing Works
- WRENN ID
- dark-bracket-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1978
- Type
- Former chapel, industrial premises
- Address
- Spinkes Printing Works, 22, the Causeway, Chippenham
- OS grid reference
- ST 923 729
- Coordinates
- 51.45562, -2.1112
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Spinkes Printing Works is a former Methodist chapel that has been converted for industrial use. It dates from the mid-19th century and is set back from the road. The building is constructed of limestone ashlar and features a slate roof with a rectangular plan.
The exterior consists of two storeys and has a gabled one-bay front. It is adorned with low battlements and a parapet above a shallow forward-facing gable. A large pointed-arched window with four lights and intersecting tracery is topped with a hoodmould. The ground floor includes three pointed arches, each with a continuous hoodmould. There are steps leading up to double half-glazed doors with two panels, which have bolection moulding and an overlight featuring Y tracery. These doors are flanked by two-light windows that also display Y tracery.
The Spinkes printing firm began using this building as industrial premises in 1909 and operated there until 1978. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Spinkes Printing Works 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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