40 and 42, Bath Road is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1969. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
40 and 42, Bath Road
- WRENN ID
- tangled-obsidian-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1969
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 40 and 42, Bath Road, Melksham, SN12 8DG
- OS grid reference
- ST 896 647
- Coordinates
- 51.38154, -2.15079
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
40 and 42 Bath Road are a pair of attached cottages built in the early 18th century. They are constructed from coursed rubblestone and feature a stone slate roof with coped verges and saddlestones, along with ashlar stacks. The cottages are one storey high with an attic and have a total of four windows. The doors are framed with chamfered cases and topped with flat stone hoods supported by brackets. The central windows are three-light cyma mullioned, while the side windows are four-light cyma mullioned. There are four attic dormers, each with hipped stone slate roofs and two-light cyma mullioned windows. The windows and door case of No 42 have been restored to replicate the originals. On the right side of No 40, there are two single cyma moulded casements on the ground floor and one two-light mullioned window in the attic. The left side of No 42 mirrors this but has been restored. At the rear, there are extensions from the 19th and 20th centuries. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
40 and 42, Bath Road receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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 — 3 transactions since 1995
- 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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