Rosefield and Homefield with gatepiers, gate standards and gate is a Grade II* listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1950. House. 13 related planning applications.

Rosefield and Homefield with gatepiers, gate standards and gate

WRENN ID
idle-wattle-pigeon
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 December 1950
Type
House
Address
Rosefield and Homefield with gatepiers, gate standards and gate, Polebarn Road, Trowbridge
OS grid reference
ST 860 579
Coordinates
51.32011, -2.20218
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a late 18th or early 19th century pair of houses, Rosefield and Homefield, situated on the north-east side of Polebarn Road. The houses are three storeys high and built of Bath stone, featuring a projecting plinth and rusticated ground floor treatment. A plain string runs at the level of the first-floor window sills, with a carved string and diaper pattern above the second-floor window sills. The building is finished with a plain frieze, a moulded cornice, and a parapet incorporating balustraded panels above the windows. The front is divided into four bays by full-height, slightly projecting pilasters with a raised key pattern. The windows are sash windows with glazing bars.

The main entrance to Rosefield House is in the second bay from the left. It features a half-glazed door with reeded lower panels and a rectangular fanlight with curved and radiating details. A stone porch has two pairs of slender piers with an incised key pattern, supporting a panelled architrave carved with key fret and diamond patterns, and a small balustrade with angle blocks enriched with fan motifs. The porch has small arched openings to the sides and a three-centred arch supported on offsets to the piers above the central entrance. The design reflects the influence of Sir John Soane. A large, three-storey extension with 1+6 windows, built in the 1950s in a sympathetic style, now provides the main entrance to Homefield House.

A two-storey bow window is present on the south-east return of the main house, and another on the north-west end, which has small cast iron flower guards. A pair of cast iron gate standards with diagonal panels and urn finials stand at the roadside, along with a small wrought iron gate leading to Homefield House. One rusticated stone pier remains, bearing a key pattern at its base. Rosefield Cottage, the adjoining wall between Rosefield and the Police Station, and numbers 1 to 15 (consecutive) form a group.

Local climate

Rosefield and Homefield with gatepiers, gate standards and gate 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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  2. Rosefield Cottage Grade II 44 m
  3. 6 and 7, Polebarn Road Grade II 51 m
  4. Lady Brown's Cottages Grade II 57 m
  5. Wall Between Rosefield House and Police Station Grade II 63 m
  6. The Castle Public House Grade II 75 m
  7. Courtfield House Grade II* 83 m
  8. Workshop to South West of Courtfield House, Together with Lead Pump Grade II 98 m
  9. Garden Wall and Gate Piers to South East of Courtfield House Grade II 105 m
  10. Wall to South East of No 14 Grade II 118 m