The Volunteer Arms Public House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 April 1954. Public house. 3 related planning applications.
The Volunteer Arms Public House
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 April 1954
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Volunteer Arms Public House, Southbroom Road, Devizes, SN10 1LY
- OS grid reference
- SU 008 613
- Coordinates
- 51.35145, -1.98988
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Volunteers Arms Public House dates from the early 19th century. It is a two-storey building with an attic and basement, situated on the west side of Southbroom Road. The building is constructed of Bath stone, featuring a projecting plinth, a first-floor sill course, a moulded cornice, and a parapet with coping. The roof is a Mansard design, covered in slate and pierced by three dormers. The first floor has three windows with recessed sash windows and intact glazing bars. The ground floor includes a segmental arched entry leading to a yard on the left, a canted bay window with a hipped lead roof to the left of centre, and a single window to the right of centre recessed within a wide rectangular opening with a recessed apron. Two recessed doors are present, the left-hand door having six fielded panels and the right-hand door featuring four flush panels. The Volunteers Arms forms a group with numbers 71 to 99 (odd), and numbers 103 to 113 (odd).
Local climate
The Volunteer Arms Public House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 1996
- 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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