Yes, and with less resistance than the surroundings might suggest. Only four buildings in the whole area carry a listing. No conservation area covers the place. Twelve scheduled monuments sit in the ground around it, which is a genuinely different problem. The thing most likely to complicate a build here is not what your house looks like, it is what is underneath the garden.
Start with the buildings themselves. Four are listed: one at Grade II star and three at Grade II, with nothing at Grade I. Listing bites hard on the buildings it covers, since consent is needed for alterations affecting the character of the place inside as well as out, and that includes work an owner of an ordinary house would never think twice about. Four buildings across an entire area is a small number though. For almost every home here, the listing regime is somebody else's paperwork.
The heavier protection sits outdoors. Twelve scheduled monuments fall within the area, and scheduling is the strictest tier in the system, tighter than listing. It applies to the monument and its setting rather than to houses, so it matters most for anyone planning groundworks on a plot that sits close to one. A conservatory footing is not usually the issue. A deep excavation next to protected ground is a conversation before it is a quote.
The live evidence is that people alter homes here constantly. Wiltshire's planning register recorded 509 applications across this area between April 2024 and June 2026, with 238 of those falling in the most recent twelve months. That is a steady flow of householders putting extensions, conversions and alterations through the system rather than a place where nobody bothers because the answer is always no.
In practice, most homes here sit outside any conservation area, carry no listing and occupy plots with room around them, which is the profile permitted development rights were written for. Plenty of routine work falls inside those rights without a full application. Permitted development is not universal, though. It varies by property, it can be removed on specific sites, and the only view that counts is the council's view of the exact address. Check that before ordering materials rather than after, and if the plot sits near protected ground, get the archaeology question answered before the digger arrives rather than while it idles.
Freedom to alter a house here is decent without being unrestricted. The buildings themselves are mostly unencumbered, and the complication is buried rather than listed, which makes it easier to ignore and more expensive to discover late.