Church House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 April 1987. House.
Church House
- WRENN ID
- eastward-porch-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 April 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Church House, 3, Rooke's Lane, Potterne
- OS grid reference
- ST 996 584
- Coordinates
- 51.32556, -2.00693
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Church House is a house dating from around 1600, which underwent significant restoration in the later 19th century. It is constructed of rubble stone with ashlar dressings and features fishscale-banded plain tile roofs. The house has a west end stack and stands 2½ storeys high, with a two-gabled front that includes a central projecting two-storey ashlar gabled porch. The porch has a coped gable and a ball finial, along with hollow-moulded recessed mullion windows—one three-light window with a hood mould on the first floor front and blank two-light windows on each side. A drip course runs above the flush moulded doorway.
The main part of the house has entirely 19th-century fenestration, featuring three-light ovolo-moulded windows with hood moulds and relieving arches on the main floors, and three-light chamfered windows with hood moulds in the attic. On the right side, there is a date plaque reading P W / I V M V / 1614. A west end extension has a brick gable end. The parallel rear range, which has end stacks, appears mostly to be from the 19th century but is a remodelling of an earlier building. It features three sharp gables and generally has 19th-century mullion windows, including a two-storey ashlar bay window, while an 18-pane stair-light is likely from the 18th century. To the right of the main front, there is a single-storey range with stone slates, half-hipped to the west, which has a 20th-century door with a hood on brackets and renewed timber-mullion windows.
Local climate
Church House receives an average of 840 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 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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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