53 and 55, High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. Shop. 3 related planning applications.

53 and 55, High Street

WRENN ID
iron-parapet-holly
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
Country
England
Type
Shop
Address
53 and 55, High Street, Melksham, SN12 6JY
OS grid reference
ST 904 638
Coordinates
51.37347, -2.1381
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos 53 and 55 on High Street are two shops dating from the early 18th century. They are constructed from roughcast rubblestone and feature a stone slate hipped roof. The buildings are two storeys tall with an attic and have four windows in total. The ground floor has 20th-century shop fronts, while the first floor showcases four stone cross windows and a moulded eaves cornice with a blocking course. Above No 55, there are two hipped dormers. The left side of the building has three cross windows on the first floor, continuing the eaves cornice and blocking course from the front, along with a decorated cast-iron rainwater head on the right. At the rear, there is a 19th-century ashlar wing with sash windows. These buildings are included in the register despite the modern shop fronts due to their group value with No 1 Bank Street, which is part of the same 18th-century block.

Local climate

53 and 55, High Street receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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