Arlington House is a Grade II* listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1950. Town house. 5 related planning applications.
Arlington House
- WRENN ID
- slow-hearth-rowan
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 December 1950
- Type
- Town house
- Address
- Arlington House, 72, Fore Street, Trowbridge, BA14 8HQ
- OS grid reference
- ST 854 580
- Coordinates
- 51.32136, -2.21021
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Arlington House, located at No. 72 on Fore Street, is an early 18th century town house, believed to have been the residence of the Singer family, who were clothiers. The building is constructed of ashlar stone on a moulded plinth, featuring draughted corner piers and a moulded eaves cornice. It has a stone tile roof with two brick chimneys located off the ridge. The house includes three dormers, with the central one being segmental-headed, and all dormers have moulded cornices.
There are five ranges of glazing bar sash windows, which have raised stone surrounds with moulded outer edges and beaded inner edges, along with brackets supporting the sills. The ground floor windows are adorned with cornices. A central Doric porch features two engaged piers and a moulded entablature, although the triglyph frieze is damaged, lacking triglyphs and only showing guttae. The entrance includes a six-panel door set in a channelled surround, with a rectangular fanlight above the door void, shaped by the segmental ceiling of the hall. At the rear, there is a two-storey brick extension against a rubble brick wall.
Arlington House is part of a notable group that includes Nos 65 to 68, Nos 70 to 73, the railings and gates to Nos 68 and 70, a dwarf stone wall to No 72, No 64 (Lloyds Bank), and Usher's Brewery Corner Block, along with No 8 and the premises occupied by K.J. Lestor to the southwest of No 8 Wicker Hill.
Local climate
Arlington House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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Nearby listed buildings
- Dward Stone Wall to Arlington House
- 71, Fore Street
- 73, Fore Street
- 8, Wicker Hill
- Railings and Piers to Front of Parade House
- Premises Occupied by K J Lester (Hairstylist) to South West of No 8
- Parade House
- 2 and 3, Fore Street
- 1 and 1a, Fore Street
- Corner Block of Former Usher's Brewery Between Nos 68 and 70