Starfield is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1988. House. 3 related planning applications.
Starfield
- WRENN ID
- frozen-column-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- Melksham and Devizes MP: Brian Mathew (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- Starfield, the Star, Holt, BA14 6QB
- OS grid reference
- ST 864 618
- Coordinates
- 51.35563, -2.19543
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Starfield is a detached house dating from the 18th century, rebuilt in the mid-19th century. It features a limestone ashlar front and a rubble stone rear, topped with a Welsh slate mansard roof that has coped verges and stone stacks at the gable ends. The house is two stories high with a three-window front facing southwest.
The central entrance is a classical stone porch with round-arched double doors, which open to reveal a six-panelled inner door with a fanlight above. The porch is flanked by two-storey canted bays that have segmental-headed plate glass sash windows on the ground floor, complete with keystones and imposts. A sill band runs along the first floor, where the bays contain 12-pane sash windows, and there is a central 12-pane sash window above the entrance. A moulded cornice is present above a plain blocking course.
On the right side of the house, there are two single-light attic casements. The rear service wing features pairs of 12-pane sashes on the ground floor and 16-pane sashes on the first floor. The rear of the service wing includes 19th and 20th-century casements and two blocked mullioned windows, indicating that earlier fabric has been incorporated into the 19th-century house.
Local climate
Starfield 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 26 transactions since 2001
- 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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