Wiltshire County Council Offices, County and Magistrates Court is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 April 1950. Municipal offices.

Wiltshire County Council Offices, County and Magistrates Court

WRENN ID
hallowed-bronze-larch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 April 1950
Type
Municipal offices
Address
Wiltshire County Council Offices, County and Magistrates Court, 11, Market Place, Chippenham, SN15 3HF
OS grid reference
ST 921 731
Coordinates
51.45736, -2.11428
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is the Wiltshire County Council Offices and County and Magistrates' Court, originally a house from the mid-18th century. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar quoins, a parapet, and dressings, topped with a hipped stone slate roof on the left. The building has a three-unit plan and stands two storeys tall with a seven-window range. The raised quoins and architraves suggest that the first floor may have been rendered in the past. It features cyma-moulded architraves around 6/6-pane sash windows on the first floor, while the ground floor has plate-glass sashes. An ashlar eaves band, cornice, and parapet adorn the front and the one-window left return on Timber Street, where the ground-floor window's architrave includes a cornice. There is a narrow ashlar lintel band at the ground floor and a worn chamfered capping on a rubblestone plinth at the front. To the right of the centre, there is a Tuscan doorcase with engaged columns supporting an entablature and pediment. A step leads up to a 19th-century four-panel door that is glazed at the top. The interior has been altered.

Local climate

Wiltshire County Council Offices, County and Magistrates Court receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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