39 and 40, Fore Street is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1976. Commercial building. 2 related planning applications.
39 and 40, Fore Street
- WRENN ID
- iron-bastion-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1976
- Type
- Commercial building
- Address
- 39 and 40, Fore Street, Trowbridge, BA14 8EJ
- OS grid reference
- ST 856 579
- Coordinates
- 51.32054, -2.20706
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
39 and 40 Fore Street are two-storey buildings constructed in 1854-55 in an early Renaissance Italianate style. They are made of dressed and coursed Bath stone. The parapet is ramped up at the sides and center, featuring billet moulding over the ground floor. There is plain moulding with grotesques on the sides, including an atlant and a lion-like figure, with a bulge in the center where a flagstaff once stood. The ground floor has an arcade of four openings with drip moulds and dying mouldings on the arches. Number 39 retains carved capitals on its octagonal piers, while the piers of Number 40 have been replaced by a rolled steel joist for both arches, which are now glazed. On the first floor, there are two pairs of arched windows, also with drip moulds, cable moulding, coupled central colonettes with stiff leaf caps, piers on the sides, and mask cill brackets on both pairs. Numbers 37 to 44, along with Number 38A and Numbers 46 to 48, form a group with Number 13 Church Walk, while Number 43 is noted for its local interest.
Local climate
39 and 40, 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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