The Old Coach House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1988. A C18 Coach house. 3 related planning applications.

The Old Coach House

WRENN ID
first-chapel-grove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 January 1988
Type
Coach house
Address
The Old Coach House, Church Street, Semington, BA14 6JS
OS grid reference
ST 898 604
Coordinates
51.34322, -2.14782
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Old Coach House is a coach house and stables that were originally part of Semington House, now functioning as a detached house. It dates from the 1790s and features a limestone ashlar front, with rubble stone on the rear and returns, topped by a Welsh slate hipped roof and ashlar stacks. The building is two stories high with an attic and has three windows.

On the left side, there are large elliptically-arched double doors, while a smaller arched opening to the right includes a recessed porch that leads to a 20th-century entrance with a half-glazed door, which was brought from Semington House. The first floor has elliptically-arched sash windows, with a large 24-pane window in the center flanked by smaller 12-pane windows, and a gable above that features pigeon holes for a dovecote.

To the right, there is a single-storey former stable with two 2-light flush mullioned casements and a five-step stone mounting block at the front. The former stable and tack room on the left has two planked doors and a 2-light mullioned casement. The right return has a 20th-century bow window inserted, and the rear has 20th-century casements.

The interior was converted into a dwelling during the 1970s, but some original features, such as iron bridle hangers and tethering rings, have been retained. The building was constructed for the Bruges family of Semington House.

Local climate

The Old Coach House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% 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
  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
  • 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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