Colston House is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1986. House. 2 related planning applications.
Colston House
- WRENN ID
- dusted-jamb-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Colston House, Market Place, Fairford, GL7 4AB
- OS grid reference
- SP 152 010
- Coordinates
- 51.70804, -1.781
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Colston House is a house in a row, dating from the mid to late 18th century. It features an ashlar front with chamfered rustication on the ground floor, set on a plinth, while the remainder of the building is constructed from rubble stone. The house has a tile roof that is hidden behind a large pediment spanning the entire width, adorned with a moulded modillion cornice and a small lunette in the center. It is a single range building with three storeys and an attic.
The front has three windows: the second floor has 6-pane sash windows, and the first floor features 12-pane sash windows with a continuous sill band below. The ground floor includes two plate glass sash windows and a door to the right, which has four panels with the top two glazed and the lower two fielded. This door is topped with a decorative margin glazed transom light, and each opening is framed with a large chamfered keystone and flanking single voussoirs. The cornice continues along both returns of the building.
Inside, there is an exposed ancient coffin lid incorporated into the party wall with Acacia House on the first floor. The king post roof is exposed in the linked attic and second floors.
Local climate
Colston House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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 — 2 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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