Witches Cauldron is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1978. House.
Witches Cauldron
- WRENN ID
- sharp-pedestal-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1978
- Type
- House
- Address
- Witches Cauldron, 14, Warminster Road, Westbury
- OS grid reference
- ST 872 511
- Coordinates
- 51.25917, -2.18367
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Witches Cauldron, located on the north-west side of Warminster Road in Westbury, is a building said to date back to the 15th century, with timber framing likely from the 17th century or possibly older. It stands two storeys tall, with Nos 12 and 14 being brick-faced and No 16 finished in pebbledash. The roof is covered with pantiles and features two brick ridge chimneys.
No 12 has two windows on the first floor; the right-hand window is four panes wide, while the left-hand window has altered glazing bars. On the ground floor, there is one modern shop window to the right and a nine-panelled door to the left, framed by a heavy architrave with cut brackets and a moulded wood hood. No 14 has one window on the first floor with altered glazing bars and a shop on the ground floor that features wide windows with six panes by four panes and a door recess of one pane width. To the left is a half-glazed door, along with a small frieze and cornice. No 16 has two windows on the first floor, also with altered glazing bars, and a modern shop front. The east gable end, adjacent to No 12, is timber framed and includes a gable-lit attic.
Local climate
Witches Cauldron 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2003
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