73, Fore Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1950. House.

73, Fore Street

WRENN ID
brooding-chalk-willow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 December 1950
Type
House
Address
73, Fore Street, Trowbridge
OS grid reference
ST 854 580
Coordinates
51.32127, -2.21043
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No 73 on Fore Street is an 18th-century building that stands two stories high with an attic. It features painted stucco on its exterior, a projecting plinth, flat eaves, and a stone tile roof. There is one dormer and two brick chimneys located on the ridge. A lead rainwater hopper is positioned at the angle with No 8 Wicker Hill.

The first floor has two windows with raised surrounds and no glazing bars, while the ground floor has one similar window. To the left, there is a six-panel door with a plain rectangular fanlight in a raised stone surround. This door is supported by cut scroll brackets that hold up a flat stone hood with a modillioned soffit, which is an unusual design. The main part of the house is located behind No 8 Wicker Hill. The front features pitched paving, and the back of the house is partly constructed of brick in English bond, with two tall brick stacks set in the gables. There are two raised window surrounds remaining, one for a paired window on the first floor and one for a similar window on the ground floor that has lost its mullion.

No 73, along with Nos 65 to 68, Nos 70 to 73, the railings and gates to Nos 68 and 70, the dwarf stone wall to No 72, No 64 (Lloyds Bank), and Usher's Brewery Corner Block, form an outstanding group with No 8 and the premises occupied by K.J. Lestor to the southwest of No 8 Wicker Hill.

Local climate

73, Fore Street receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% 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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