The Old House Restaurant is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 February 1952. Restaurant. 4 related planning applications.
The Old House Restaurant
- WRENN ID
- calm-gutter-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 February 1952
- Type
- Restaurant
- Address
- The Old House Restaurant, 47 and 49, New Street, Salisbury
- OS grid reference
- SU 143 297
- Coordinates
- 51.06715, -1.7964
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old House Restaurant, located at 47 and 49 New Street, is a building dating back to 1569, as indicated on a rainwater pipe, although the left gable is believed to be older. This structure features two gabled fronts and consists of two storeys with an attic. The left gabled bay is constructed from random rubble and brick, while the right-hand side, which was once exposed timber frame with plaster infilling, is now tile hung. Each gable has a two-light attic casement.
On the first floor, there are two three-light wood mullioned and transomed windows with moulded cornices above, along with a small two-light casement situated between them. The ground floor also has two similar three-light windows, which feature moulded frames and shallow bracketed hoods. All windows are fitted with modern leaded casements.
The central entrance door is wide and consists of six fielded panels, flanked by squat proportions and early 18th-century Doric pilasters, topped with a moulded entablature and pediment. There is a secondary early 19th-century door with six flush panels, set within a reeded architrave that includes corner blocks and a small flat hood.
Inside, the building retains beams and a securing wall plate, while the roof structure is sealed, although the positions of the principals and purlins are still visible. The southeast room on the first floor features an open roof with two bays and collar tie beam trusses.
The Old House Restaurant is part of a group that includes Nos 21 to 49 (odd), the School of Arts and Crafts, and Nos 61, 63, and 67 to 75 (odd).
Local climate
The Old House Restaurant 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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