Murhill House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1988. A 19th century House. 1 related planning application.
Murhill House
- WRENN ID
- silent-stronghold-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1988
- Type
- House
- Period
- 19th century
- Address
- Murhill House, Winsley
- OS grid reference
- ST 795 606
- Coordinates
- 51.34447, -2.29468
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Murhill House is a house built around 1840 to 1850, which is a remodelling of early 19th century quarry cottages. It is constructed of ashlar stone and features fishscale tiled roofs with coped gables. The house has moulded Tudor-style ashlar stacks and is 1½ storeys tall, designed in a T-plan.
The west front has three windows and a central half-glazed door set in an ashlar porch that has a flat top and a hoodmould. On either side of the door are margin-glazed French windows, each with a matching heavy hoodmould. The first floor contains three small-paned two-light mullion windows, which have a heavy stone shelf supported by corbels between them. Above each window, there is an ashlar raised coped gable featuring a quatrefoil plaque.
The south end of the house has similar windows on each floor, along with a blank loop on either side of the upper window. The range to the right shows blocked doors from the former cottages. There are three more similar ground floor French windows with hoodmoulds and three two-light windows above, but only the centre window has a gable above it. There is also a parallel range to the north.
Local climate
Murhill House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 53% 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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