Jubilee Room is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1985. Chapel, cottage.

Jubilee Room

WRENN ID
winding-wall-moon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 July 1985
Type
Chapel, cottage
Address
Jubilee Room, Berwick St. John
OS grid reference
ST 957 195
Coordinates
50.97491, -2.06172
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Jubilee Room is a chapel that has been converted into a cottage, built in 1887 for General Pitt-Rivers. The structure features a combination of ashlar and timber-framing, with various patterns of brick nogging, a tiled roof, and a brick stack. It is a single storey with an attic and has a one-window front facing the drive.

To the right, there is a large gabled porch that includes a Tudor-arched doorway and a single light with hoodmoulds. The gable displays terracotta heraldic arms and cusped bargeboards. To the left, there is a cross window with Tudor-arched lights and a hoodmould. The timber-framed first floor has a wooden three-light mullioned and transomed window with decorative leading, along with a gable featuring bargeboards and lead downpipes decorated with animal motifs.

The left side of the building has a large stone square bay with a five-light double-transomed window that includes coloured and painted glass, topped by a battlemented parapet with a corbel table. Above this, there is a decorated iron sundial inscribed with the words "Tempus fugit." The rear of the building features one three-light mullioned and transomed window on the first floor. The right side has a similar window and gable, which displays the date 1887 in wrought iron.

The steeply-pitched roof is topped with a wooden and copper cupola, featuring turned balusters at the openings and an ogee capping with a weather vane. Inside, there is one large room that was formerly the chapel, characterized by decorated plaster panelling and an open roof. General Pitt-Rivers constructed this picturesque cottage as a chapel for the tenants of the Rushmore Estate, which is part of a picturesque group that includes North Lodge and the entrance gates and walls.

Local climate

Jubilee Room receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% 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 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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