16, King Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 February 1985. House.
16, King Street
- WRENN ID
- other-kitchen-furze
- 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
- 16, King Street, Melksham
- OS grid reference
- ST 904 634
- Coordinates
- 51.3704, -2.13857
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 16 on King Street is a detached house built in the early 19th century. It features ashlar stonework and a stone slate roof with coped verges and a stone stack on the right. The building is two stories high with an attic and has three windows. To the right of the center, there is a six-panelled door with a beaded case and a flat stone hood supported by brackets. On either side of the door are 12-pane sash windows, and there is a round-arched entry to the left. A plat band runs along the first floor, where there is a central blind window flanked by sashes. The roof has a moulded eaves cornice and two hipped dormers with sash windows. At the rear, there is a two-story brick extension added in the 19th century.
Local climate
16, King 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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