The Jacobean House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1987. House. 1 related planning application.

The Jacobean House

WRENN ID
patient-trefoil-linden
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
3 April 1987
Type
House
Address
The Jacobean House, High Street, Rowde, SN10 2PN
OS grid reference
ST 978 626
Coordinates
51.36332, -2.03174
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Jacobean House is a house dating from the late 17th century or early 18th century, which is a rebuilding of an earlier 17th-century timber-framed house that was part of the now-demolished Lamb Inn. The structure features a timber frame with some render and a steep stone slate roof. It has two storeys and an attic, with a deep coved eaves cornice. The ground floor is constructed of timber frame and brick, while the first floor is rendered with some exposed framing.

On the right side, there is a hipped-roof section with two windows, featuring 12-pane sash windows on the left and blocked openings on the right, along with one hipped dormer. Slightly set back to the left is a two-window range that also has a hipped dormer, a coved cornice, and renewed 12-pane sashes. The east end wall and rear wall are made of 20th-century red brick. The west front includes a roof slope stack, a coved cornice, two first-floor 12-pane sashes, and a ground-floor 12-pane sash, along with a door in a 20th-century porch and two casements. There is a lean-to on the south end.

Inside, the house features a closed string staircase with turned balusters and square newels. The drawing room has a large moulded stone fireplace from the 17th century and a stone shelf, while the dining room is adorned with early 18th-century panelling and a bolection-moulded corner fireplace.

Local climate

The Jacobean 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 56% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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  • 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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