6, King Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1985. Cottage, shop.
6, King Street
- WRENN ID
- swift-moulding-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1985
- Type
- Cottage, shop
- Address
- 6, King Street, Melksham, SN12 6HD
- OS grid reference
- ST 904 635
- Coordinates
- 51.3708, -2.13846
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 6 King Street is a cottage that has been converted into a shop, with an attached house and a rear wing. It dates from the 18th century and is constructed of painted ashlar with a concrete tiled roof. The building is L-shaped with a rear wing and is two stories tall, featuring two windows on the front. The ground floor has 20th-century shop windows and two doors beneath an 18th-century cornice, with the left window blocking an entry. On the first floor, there are two 12-pane sash windows in beaded cases.
At the rear, there is a two-story wing with five windows. The left part of this wing is a symmetrical early 18th-century cottage, which includes a central cyma-moulded door case with a flat stone hood supported by brackets, and three-light cyma-mullioned windows on the sides and first floor. This rear wing connects to the front range through a two-story section that also features cyma-mullioned windows. It is said that this building was known as The White Hart Inn in the 19th century.
Local climate
6, 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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