12, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1978. House, shop.

12, High Street

WRENN ID
scattered-nave-river
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 June 1978
Type
House, shop
Address
12, High Street, Chippenham, SN15 3ER
OS grid reference
ST 920 732
Coordinates
51.45845, -2.11543
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 12 High Street is a house that has been converted into a shop. It features an early to mid 19th-century refronting of an earlier structure. The building is made of painted ashlar and has a steep-pitched stone slate roof with an external stone stack that has a brick shaft on the right gable end. The layout is double-depth, with a 19th-century facade and a rear addition.

The exterior is two storeys high and has a symmetrical arrangement of five windows. The parapet and cornice are shaped to follow the slope of the roof, indicating that the front has been altered. The first floor has 6/1-pane sash windows with moulded architraves and bracketed sills. There are chamfered rusticated pilasters, with the one on the right featuring a plinth and cornice between the floors. The shop front was added in the 20th century.

Inside, at the rear of the first floor, there is an early 18th-century six-panel door and a mid-18th-century four-panel door. Next to these is a window with three rows of four crown-glass panes, which has thick ovolo-moulded glazing bars and likely opens onto what was once a courtyard, now a room. The roof structure has three bays and features a butt-purlin design with a slightly arched collar beam.

Local climate

12, High Street receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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