Vernham House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1978. A Late C18 House. 3 related planning applications.
Vernham House
- WRENN ID
- narrow-sill-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- Vernham House, 12, the Common Close, Warminster, BA12 9AL
- OS grid reference
- ST 873 452
- Coordinates
- 51.20637, -2.18195
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Vernham House is a late 18th-century building of three storeys located on the east side of The Common Close in Warminster. The construction is of coursed and squared rubble, with small ashlar quoins. The roof is covered with old tiles. The windows are glazing bar sash windows set in moulded frames. On the upper floors, there are three windows, with the central window of the second floor being blocked. The ground floor has two windows, the outer ones being wider. A central six-panel door is recessed and framed by an architrave.
Local climate
Vernham House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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