Premises of Holdoway and Sons (Former Union Workhouse) is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1978. Workhouse. 1 related planning application.
Premises of Holdoway and Sons (Former Union Workhouse)
- WRENN ID
- still-bracket-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1978
- Type
- Workhouse
- Address
- Premises of Holdoway and Sons (Former Union Workhouse), Eden Vale Road, Westbury
- OS grid reference
- ST 867 508
- Coordinates
- 51.25656, -2.19178
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The premises of Holdoway and Sons, originally a union workhouse, is an early 19th-century adaptation of a later 18th-century front range. The building stands three stories tall, with a two-story wing on the right and a single-story wing on the left. It is constructed of red brick, featuring a stone band above the ground floor of the main section, and has hipped slate roofs.
The main part of the building has five ranges of windows, with the central three slightly projecting forward. The first floor has plank shutters, while the second floor features casement windows, and the rest of the windows are sash types. A later addition is a central gabled brick porch, which includes footstones, coped verges, and flanking foot scrapers. The gable is adorned with a clock, and the entrance has a segmental arch with a stone key and pointed side windows.
The two-story wing on the right has three ranges of segmental-headed glazing bar sashes with stone keys. The left-hand wing also has three ranges of windows with segmental heads, which are glazing bar sashes. At the rear, the main part has a five-window extension, with the fourth bay featuring a very wide angled three-story bay that is mirrored on both sides of the extension. The property is enclosed by dwarf reverse quadrant walls topped with arrowhead railings, and there are central gates with cast iron piers. The end piers are made of stone and have moulded caps.
Local climate
Premises of Holdoway and Sons (Former Union Workhouse) 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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