Converted Coach House to North East Wren House is a Grade II* listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1952. Residential house. 4 related planning applications.
Converted Coach House to North East Wren House
- WRENN ID
- sunken-sandstone-river
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1952
- Type
- Residential house
- Address
- Converted Coach House to North East Wren House, 32, Vicarage Street, Warminster, BA12 8JF
- OS grid reference
- ST 867 450
- Coordinates
- 51.20483, -2.19112
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 32, known as Wren House, is a converted coach house dating from around 1720 or 1730. It is an excellent example of an early Georgian five-bay house, featuring two storeys and an attic beneath a hipped mansard roof covered with old tiles. The exterior is constructed of coursed rubble on a projecting plinth with moulded coping, a plain string course above the ground floor windows, and rusticated quoins. The building has a moulded and bracketed cornice and a parapet, with a slight central break that includes a pediment and a quoined bullseye.
On the first floor, there is a Venetian window, while the ground floor features a wide six-panel door with a Gibbs surround, a moulded and bracketed cornice, and narrow flanking windows. The sash windows have altered glazing, arranged in two ranges on each side of the centre, with architraves. Below the plinth, there are two small mullioned windows for the cellars. The roof includes two dormers with architrave surrounds, central keyblocks, and a cornice with a pediment.
Inside, the property retains several period features, including vaulted cellars, a fine oak staircase with three balusters to the tread, an uncut string with scrolls and guttae, and a scrolled end piece with a ramped dado. There is a two-light stair window with a stop-moulded mullion and an eared surround to the fireplace in a ground floor room to the right.
At the rear, there is a long former stable wing made of stone with brick quoins, which has been recently and well converted into accommodation, featuring reused glazing bar sash windows. The former coach house to the east has also been converted into a dwelling, standing at one and a half storeys with a brick lacing course and pigeon holes.
Local climate
Converted Coach House to North East Wren House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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.
- No sale records on file
- 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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