New Sarum House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 February 1999. A Victorian Commercial chambers. 1 related planning application.

New Sarum House

WRENN ID
hollow-wicket-rowan
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 February 1999
Type
Commercial chambers
Period
Victorian
Address
New Sarum House, Market Square, Salisbury, SP1 1TF
OS grid reference
SU 143 300
Coordinates
51.06939, -1.79613
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

New Sarum House is a commercial building located in Salisbury Market Square, constructed around 1900 by Frederick Bath of Salisbury. The building features red brick, ashlar, and timber bay windows, topped with a clay plain tile roof that has railings around the lead flats. It includes brick lateral stacks with lozenge-shaped paired flues, cornices, and moulded brick shafts.

The structure is approximately square in plan and freestanding, except for the south side which is adjacent to another building. It is designed in a Jacobean/Dutch style and stands three storeys tall with an attic. The north front is symmetrical with three bays, featuring large ashlar oriel turrets at the corners that are corbelled out over corner entrances. The doorways have elliptical arches, fanlights, and panelled doors. Above the doorways, the turrets have large round oriels with moulded mullion-transom windows, pilasters, entablature, and cornices. The octagonal attics are topped with broken cornices and ogee-shaped lead domes with ball-finials.

In the center, there is an ornate timber canted two-storey oriel with moulded mullion-transom windows, panelled pilasters, and an open scrolled pediment, along with a pedimental gable above. Flanking lateral stacks feature paired lozenge-section flues with moulded brick cornices and shafts. The ground floor shop window is framed by stone pilasters and has a high fascia with a moulded cornice and plate-glass windows. The shop window extends to the east and west elevations, each with similar ornate timber oriels; the west side has a canted oriel on the right, while the east side features both square and canted oriels. The upper lights of the windows are adorned with leaded panes and stained glass.

Inside, a doorway on the west side leads to a staircase with a turned wooden balustrade, providing access to the chambers.

Local climate

New Sarum House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% 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 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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