78, London Road is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1978. A C19 House. 1 related planning application.
78, London Road
- WRENN ID
- dusk-landing-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- 78, London Road, Chippenham, SN15 3AZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 926 727
- Coordinates
- 51.45325, -2.10754
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
78 London Road is a house dating from the early 19th century, with later 19th-century alterations and additions. It is constructed of squared coursed limestone rubble, featuring an ashlar facade and a slate roof with brick stacks at the gable ends. The building has a three-unit plan and includes a red brick double-gabled rear extension built in English bond.
The exterior is two storeys high and has a symmetrical arrangement of three windows. There is an early 19th-century platband and late 19th-century horned six-over-six pane sash windows, with the central window featuring a semicircular arch. The entrance consists of a four-panel door with bolection moulding at the base, leaded lights at the top, an overlight, and a shallow hood supported by brackets. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
78, London Road 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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