Grove Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 July 1985. Houses. 1 related planning application.
Grove Farm
- WRENN ID
- strange-merlon-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 July 1985
- Type
- Houses
- Address
- Grove Farm, 1 and 2, London Terrace, Box, SN13 8HS
- OS grid reference
- ST 832 691
- Coordinates
- 51.42091, -2.24221
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Grove Farm, now Nos. 1 and 2 London Terrace, is a pair of houses dating from the early 18th century, with later extensions. The front is built of ashlar stone, while the rear is of rubble stone, and the roof is covered with stone tiles. The gables are coped, and there are end wall stacks to the main range, and a rear wall stack to No. 1.
No. 2, on the right, represents the original range and features a first-floor window to the left with two lights and flush chamfered mullions, and paired windows to the right with three and two lights and flush cyma-moulded mullions. The ground floor has a two-light flush chamfered window, a door in a stone slab porch with a flat hood, and to the right, a door with a blank arch above and another stone slab porch with a flat hood and moulded heads to the piers. Further right are paired two-light flush cyma-moulded mullion windows with a dripstone above. A right-hand addition, with a coped gable and end wall stack, has a rosette datestone reading MW 1789 on its end wall, and a two-window front range. A 20th-century window is located above the door in the stone slab porch, which has rounded piers and a flat hood. To the right, a 20th-century window replaces a former two-light flush cyma-moulded mullion window, and a two-light flush cyma-moulded window is above. At the left-hand end of the main front, No. 1 is built of 19th-century rubble stone with a door and window to the left. To the right of the door, on the original corner stone, is the inscription 'London Place'.
A rear wing, originally with a two-light window and hoodmould to each floor, is located behind the rear wall stack. An ovolo-moulded frame survives to the upper window, while only the hoodmould remains to the lower window. This section suggests that the front of No. 1 is a rebuild of an early 18th-century house.
Local climate
Grove Farm receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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