Oakdene is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.
Oakdene
- WRENN ID
- noble-terrace-merlin
- 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
- Oakdene, 8, Watergates, Colerne, SN14 8DP
- OS grid reference
- ST 821 710
- Coordinates
- 51.43851, -2.25864
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Oakdene is an early 18th-century house in Colerne Watergates. It is constructed of rubble stone with a Bridgwater tile roof, featuring a coped gable and a paired stack at the south end. The house is two storeys high and has a two-window front. The east front features flush cyma-moulded mullion windows: two two-light windows on the upper floor, and a three-light window and a doorway within a timber porch on the lower floor. The rear elevation has one two-light and one three-light recessed ovolo-moulded mullion window to each floor, with hoodmoulds over the lower windows. A single light with a hood is present on the south end wall.
Local climate
Oakdene 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 2013
- 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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