2-5, High Street is a Grade II* listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. A Medieval Houses. 4 related planning applications.

2-5, High Street

WRENN ID
still-loggia-nettle
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 December 1960
Type
Houses
Period
Medieval
Address
2-5, High Street, Lacock, SN15 2LQ
OS grid reference
ST 916 684
Coordinates
51.4147, -2.12169
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos 2 to 5 High Street is a range of houses dating from the late medieval period with some later additions. The buildings are timber-framed with plaster panels and feature a stone slate roof with two stacks on the front slope. They are two storeys high and form an L-plan with a gabled crosswing to the right.

No 2, which was formerly the Post Office, has three leaded casement windows on the first floor, a ground floor shopfront to the left that is likely from the 19th century, a canted bay with eight-pane windows, a paired front entrance with a six-panel door under a slate hood, and a small 20th-century window to the right. No 3 features two pairs of upper casement windows, a ground floor door leading to a passage, and a casement pair to the right. No 4, located in the crosswing gable, showcases fine exposed timber framing, a cambered tie-beam with opposing curved angle braces, a jettied first floor supported by curved tension braces, and ground floor posts that curve out beneath the jetty. It also has small canted timber-mullion four-light windows on each floor. The 17th-century rear wing includes an end stack, two pairs of upper casement windows, a ground floor ovolo-moulded two-light stone mullion window, and a door. No 5 is likely a 17th-century addition to the rear of No 4, consisting of a single storey and attic with a large gabled four-light dormer, a ground floor three-light casement with a timber lintel, and a door to the right.

Inside, the front range (Nos 2 to 4) is entirely cruck-framed, probably comprising six bays of full crucks. No 3 contains a notable moulded 15th-century fireplace with a four-centred arch that is corbelled out from the jambs. The upper room of No 4, in the crosswing, features a single bay windbraced roof. The rear wing of No 4 has Tudor-arched moulded stone fireplaces with stone shelves, one on each floor.

Local climate

2-5, High 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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