50, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1988. Semi-detached house.

50, High Street

WRENN ID
tattered-bastion-gold
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 January 1988
Type
Semi-detached house
Address
50, High Street, Steeple Ashton, BA14 6EU
OS grid reference
ST 907 567
Coordinates
51.30962, -2.13476
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 50 High Street is a semi-detached house dating from the early 17th century, although it was rebuilt in the early 19th century. The structure features timber framing with brick nogging and has been refronted in painted dressed limestone. It has a Welsh slate roof and rendered stacks, forming an L-plan layout.

The house is two stories high with three windows across the front. A 20th-century four-panelled door is located to the right, framed by a pilastered architrave, while two 12-pane sash windows are positioned to the left. On the first floor, there are three sash windows. The left wing projects and contains 12-pane sashes on both floors, along with a 19th-century square pilastered porch that has a four-panelled door and a flat-roofed extension to the left. The right return is made of dressed limestone and features a two-light ground floor casement window.

At the rear, there is a 20th-century door to the left, a glazed door and a large fixed window, along with a three-light casement to the right, and five three-light casements on the first floor. A lean-to extension is attached to the right side of the house.

Inside, the property has timber-framed partitions, with the main drawing room showcasing a chamfered beam and an open fireplace with a timber lintel on stone jambs. The dining room in the cross wing features a moulded ceiling beam and exposed wide joists. The house served as the Long estate office until the mid-20th century.

Local climate

50, High Street 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 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 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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