Wiltshire County Council Offices, County and Magistrates Court is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1978. A C19 Office. 9 related planning applications.
Wiltshire County Council Offices, County and Magistrates Court
- WRENN ID
- steep-obsidian-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1978
- Type
- Office
- Address
- Wiltshire County Council Offices, County and Magistrates Court, 9 and 10, Market Place, Chippenham, SN15 3HF
- OS grid reference
- ST 921 731
- Coordinates
- 51.45748, -2.11439
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building known as the Wiltshire County Council Offices and County and Magistrates' Court in Chippenham dates back to around 1840. It features a limestone ashlar facade, with rubblestone at the rear and brick architraves on the rear wing. The roof is a slate mansard style, with ashlar slacks on the right side and rear wing. The structure has a double-depth plan and includes a late 19th-century rear wing.
The exterior is two storeys tall, with attics and a basement, and has a four-window range. It has coped gable ends and a parapet, along with a platband and plinth. To the left of center, there was originally a pedimented Tuscan doorcase, which has since been converted into a window. On the ground floor, this is flanked by tripartite windows set in semi-elliptical recesses, featuring roundels at the keystones, now fitted with late 19th-century plate-glass sashes. Above the former entrance is a semicircular-arched 6/6-pane sash window, flanked by similar Venetian windows, with another Venetian window to the far right over a wide semicircular-arched carriage entrance that now serves as a door. The arch has roll-edge moulding on the intrados and is complemented by Regency-style iron gates, likely from the 20th century. Hipped dormers with 2-light casement windows sit above the Venetian windows, and a single-light window is positioned above the original door.
Inside, the right-hand ground-floor room, located between the original entrance and the carriage entrance, may have once served as a dining room. It features a high skirting board, an elaborate cornice, and a recess at the rear likely intended for a sideboard, flanked by Corinthian columns. The reeded moulding in the entrance hall, which is now part of this room, has a cornice that stops behind a shallow panelled arch on corbels that once led to the stairwell.
Local climate
Wiltshire County Council Offices, County and Magistrates Court receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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