Girls Hostel is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. House.
Girls Hostel
- WRENN ID
- tenth-steel-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Girls Hostel, Bellevue Road, Devizes
- OS grid reference
- ST 999 618
- Coordinates
- 51.35575, -2.00198
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Girls Hostel is a building dating from around 1830 to 1840. It is a two-storey red brick house set on a stone plinth, featuring stone chamfered quoins and a stone sill course. The roof has a low pitch and is covered with nipped slate, with wide boxed eaves. The front has three recessed sash windows without glazing bars, with camber heads and block sills on the ground floor. There is a central doorway that has been converted into a French window, topped with a semi-circular fanlight and a small keystone above. A later addition includes a wing to the north and a single-storey three-sided entrance bay at the angle with the main block. The original door may have been moved to this new entrance; it has six moulded panels, with the centre ones circular and the other panels curved at the base and top. The south front of the main block features two sash windows with intact glazing bars. The garden contains fine trees. The Girls Hostel and Bellevue Cottage are part of a group.
Local climate
Girls Hostel 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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