Charcoal House and Front Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1985. A C18 House.
Charcoal House and Front Railings
- WRENN ID
- weathered-rubblework-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Charcoal House and Front Railings, Market Place, Colerne
- OS grid reference
- ST 820 711
- Coordinates
- 51.43889, -2.25997
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Charcoal House, located in Colerne Market Place, is a house from the mid-18th century that was reconstructed in 1842 to serve as a service wing of The Rectory. The building features stuccoed rubble stone with ashlar dressings and a low-pitched concrete tile roof with a corniced ashlar stack at the west end. It is two stories tall, with windows set in raised moulded stone surrounds that appear to be from the 18th century. The first floor has three 12-pane sash windows. On the ground floor, there is a pair of 12-pane sashes in moulded surrounds with a single sill and a detached moulded cornice above, a door with a plain stone surround topped by a heavy ridged stone hood on brackets, and a 12-pane sash window to the right. The door is a six-panel design, with two glazed panels. At the rear, there is a parallel range from 1842, which includes a two-story ashlar range to the left and a stuccoed gable with ashlar quoins to the right, along with a pair of gables at the rear of The Rectory. In front of the house and to the right, there are spearhead iron railings on a stone kerb.
Local climate
Charcoal House and Front Railings receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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