Rainscombe House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1952. House. 1 related planning application.
Rainscombe House
- WRENN ID
- south-hall-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rainscombe House, Wilcot, Huish and Oare, SN8 4HZ
- OS grid reference
- SU 164 637
- Coordinates
- 51.37274, -1.76452
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rainscombe House is a house built around 1810 by T. Baldwin of Bath. It features a Roman cement exterior on brick with a slate roof. The building has two storeys, an attic, and cellars, arranged in a 5 by 3 bay layout. The garden front includes a portico supported by paired Ionic columns and a wide glazed entrance. The central bay is raised and has flanking niches, while the ends of the facade are also slightly raised and feature niches. The basement is rusticated below the ground floor windows. The windows are twelve-paned sashes, except for the centre of the first floor, which has eight-paned sashes and is adorned with a fascia and cornice. The eaves are moulded, and the roof is double hipped with flat-roofed dormers. The side elevation has a central entrance flanked by pilasters from a 20th-century portico that has since been removed. Inside, there is a large hall that leads to a stair at the rear, along with flanking reception rooms.
Local climate
Rainscombe House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% 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 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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