The Old House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1988. House. 3 related planning applications.
The Old House
- WRENN ID
- quartered-keep-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Old House, 50, the Street, Chirton, SN10 3QS
- OS grid reference
- SU 073 575
- Coordinates
- 51.31723, -1.89554
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old House is an 18th-century house located on the east side of The Street in Chirton. It features Flemish bond brickwork and a pantiled roof. The building is two storeys high and has four bays. There are entrances in the second and fourth bays, with the left entrance having a six-panelled door set within a 20th-century timber porch. A plat band runs across the façade. The windows have leaded lights in 18th-century two and three-light frames, and the ground floor openings are topped with segmental arches. The eaves are decorated with brick stretcher dentils. There is a gable stack on the left side and a lean-to structure. On the right side, there is a 20th-century flat-roofed extension that extends across the rear elevation, which also has 20th-century windows.
Local climate
The Old 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 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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