Southbroom House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1954. A C18 Educational building.
Southbroom House
- WRENN ID
- secret-chimney-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 April 1954
- Type
- Educational building
- Address
- Southbroom House, Southbrrom Road, Devizes
- OS grid reference
- SU 009 612
- Coordinates
- 51.35057, -1.98729
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Southbroom House, formerly listed as Southbroom Place, is part of the Devizes Secondary Modern School and dates back to 1773. It is constructed from Bath stone and features a tall central symmetrical block of two storeys, flanked by long side wings that were likely symmetrical originally but now have many altered windows. The entrance front is effectively screened by shrubs and trees.
The north-west front is made of ashlar stone, showcasing chamfered quoins on a wide projecting plinth with slab coping. It has a moulded cornice with a parapet and coping, topped with a stone tile roof. The three central bays slightly project and are adorned with a pediment that features a central carved stone cartouche of Arms. On the first floor, there are seven windows with projecting sills and stone architrave surrounds, while the ground floor has six windows without architraves and a projecting central porch. This early 19th-century porch is made of stone and has triple angle semi-engaged Doric columns at the front and sides, with a quadrant column at the junction with the main wall, all supporting an entablature with a blocking course and standing on a projecting plinth. The entrance features double six-panel flush doors and a wrought iron scroll pattern lamp bracket projecting over the door.
The side wings are also two storeys high, with a projecting string and parapet that aligns with the sills of the first-floor windows of the main block. The original windows were likely all arched, featuring two-light casements on the ground floor with oval cart wheel windows above. This design still applies to the left-hand wing on the ground floor and partially to the right-hand wing, although many windows have been altered to two-light square casements. The garden front is similar but plainer, featuring a central fall height canted bay. Modern school buildings have been added on either side of the house. The grounds retain fine trees, particularly around the house, which serve as an important background feature to Devizes Green.
Local climate
Southbroom 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 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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