57, King Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. House.
57, King Street
- WRENN ID
- dark-copper-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- 57, King Street, Melksham
- OS grid reference
- ST 904 634
- Coordinates
- 51.36975, -2.13828
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 57 on King Street is a house dating from the late 18th century. It features a painted ashlar front, with a rubblestone rear and right side, topped by a Welsh slate mansard roof and a stone stack with a moulded capping on the right. The building is symmetrical, standing two storeys high with an attic and three windows. The central door is set in a moulded case with a pediment supported by brackets, flanked by a pair of 12-pane sash windows. There is a plat band at the first floor level, with a central sash window in a moulded case and a pair of sashes on either side. The roof includes three flat-roofed dormers, each with sash windows. At the rear, there is a two-storey wing that features 2 and 3-light cyma-mullioned windows.
Local climate
57, King Street receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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