Wormcliffe House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. House. 3 related planning applications.
Wormcliffe House
- WRENN ID
- hidden-alcove-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wormcliffe House, Wormcliff Lane, Box, SN13 8AR
- OS grid reference
- ST 811 677
- Coordinates
- 51.4087, -2.27298
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wormcliffe House is a house dating from the 17th century, built on a medieval core. It features rubble stone construction with a Bridgwater tile roof and coped gables, along with two ridge stacks. The house has two storeys and a west front that consists of a five-window range. The central area has a 20th-century stone-tiled cross-passage. To the left, there is a dormer gable with a 2-light recessed ovolo-moulded mullion-and-transom window, and above the ground floor, there is a 3-light ovolo-moulded window with a hoodmould. To the right, there is another dormer gable with a 2-light recessed chamfered mullion window and hoodmould over a 2-light ovolo-moulded window with a hoodmould. There is a straight joint to the right and a dormer gable with a 2-light flush bead-moulded window over a projecting ashlar single-storey range.
The left side of the house has a one-window range of 2-light flush bead-moulded windows, with a hoodmould over the ground floor window. The north end wall features a 20th-century three-light bead-moulded upper window and a bead-moulded door with a hoodmould. The south end wall has a recessed ovolo-moulded 2-light upper window and a single light below.
On the east front, the left end has a ground floor 2-light flush cyma-moulded window, followed by a straight joint and a dormer gable with 2-light flush bead-moulded windows with hoodmoulds on both floors. There is a central stone-tiled lean-to with a 2-light window and a chamfered inner doorcase. To the right, there is a two-window range with 2-light bead-moulded windows above and 2-light windows with hoodmoulds below, one ovolo-moulded and one bead-moulded.
Inside, the house contains a Tudor-arched stone fireplace with a keystone backing onto the cross-passage, as well as a large timber-lintel fireplace to the south. The house is marked on F Allen's map of 1630 as Worms Cliffe.
Local climate
Wormcliffe House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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 2014
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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