8, Church Lane is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1985. House.
8, Church Lane
- WRENN ID
- fossil-flue-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 February 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- 8, Church Lane, Melksham
- OS grid reference
- ST 914 643
- Coordinates
- 51.37841, -2.12424
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 8 on Church Lane is a detached house built in the early 19th century. It features an ashlar front with brick sides and rear, topped with a Welsh slate roof that has coped verges and brick end stacks. The house is two stories high and has a symmetrical front with three windows. The central entrance consists of a six-panelled door set within a wrought iron porch, flanked by 12-pane sash windows on either side. There is a plat band at the first floor, where three more 12-pane sashes are located, and another plat band at the attic level. The right side of the house has one sash window in the attic. The left side is made of rubblestone and includes a lean-to extension. At the rear, there is a brick outshot with coped verges on the roof and sash windows. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
8, Church Lane 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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