West Kennett House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1966. House.
West Kennett House
- WRENN ID
- fallen-parapet-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1966
- Type
- House
- Address
- West Kennett House, Bath Road, Avebury
- OS grid reference
- SU 113 683
- Coordinates
- 51.41423, -1.83845
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Kennett House is a house dating from around 1800, built with Flemish brickwork and featuring a concealed slate roof. It stands three storeys high with basements and has five bays. The central entrance consists of a six-panelled door that is accessed by six steps and is set within a Tuscan portico. There is a plat band between the raised ground floor and the upper floors, topped with a dentilled cornice and a low parapet. The windows are twelve-paned sashes with concealed boxes and gauged brick lintels, while the second floor has nine-pane sashes and the basement features six-pane windows. Gable stacks with moulded stone caps are present on the roof. At the rear right side, there is a 19th-century kitchen wing, and a two-storey lean-to extends across the remainder of the back elevation. Inside, the house includes a dog leg stair in the stair hall and a moulded fireplace with marble slips set between arched recesses in the drawing room to the left of the hall.
Local climate
West Kennett House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% 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 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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