Shepherd's Close is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 July 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.

Shepherd's Close

WRENN ID
winding-portal-birch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 July 1985
Type
House
Address
Shepherd's Close, Box, SN13 8QF
OS grid reference
ST 817 694
Coordinates
51.42374, -2.26354
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Shepherd's Close is a house dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, constructed of rubble stone with a thatched roof. It features coped gables and an ashlar stack at the east end of the original range, along with a lower east extension that has a stone tiled roof, a coped east gable, and an end wall stack. The building is one and a half storeys tall. The main range includes two gabled dormers, each with two-light recessed ovolo-moulded windows and hoodmoulds. There is a similar window on the ground floor to the left and an 18th-century three-light bead-moulded flush mullion window to the right. A central door is set in a gabled stone tiled porch, which also features a keyed oval light in the front wall and a door in the side wall. The 18th-century extension to the right has a single coped dormer gable and two-light cyma-moulded flush mullion windows, including one dormer gable and two on the ground floor, with the left one being a 20th-century replacement of a doorway, plus one on the east end wall, all with dripstones. Inside, the original range contains a large fireplace with a timber lintel.

Local climate

Shepherd's Close 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2001
  • 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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