Description

CHIPPENHAM

ST9273SW ST MARY STREET
930-1/10/202 (North side)
22/06/78 No.62

GV II

House, now offices. Early C18. Painted roughcast over
limestone rubble, painted freestone eaves cornice, sill string
courses, ground-floor platband and dressings; stone slate roof
to the front of the main block with simulated stone to the
rear, pantile to the C19 rear wing. 2-unit through-passage
plan with rear wing and C19 rear extensions.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 2-window range. Bracketed gutter.
3/1-pane sash windows to the 2nd floor, 6/6-panes to the 1st
floor and C20 windows to the ground floor. To the left is a
C18 hood on brackets to a C20 door with a C19 cast-iron
bootscraper to the right.
To rear, the short early C18 rear wing has a blocked door with
a cyma-moulded architrave and cornice coated in C20 roughcast,
the early C19 continuation has paired 8/8-pane sash windows. A
lower C19 pantiled range has single-storey workshop to the
rear with a horizontal sliding sash window. Mid C18 brick
stair turret at angle to right of rear wing with thick glazing
bars to 9/9-pane sashes.
INTERIOR: the through passage to the left is stone-flagged. A
chamfered axial beam spans the ground-floor room and passage.
A room to the 1st floor of the rear wing has a box cornice,
full-height raised and fielded panelling, an open fire to the
rear with a cyma moulded surround and a large raised panel
over the fire. To the left is an early C18 half-glazed
cupboard with Gothic tracery, to the right is a panelled
cupboard and a C18 door with 3 horizontal panels and L-H
hinges. The right wall is divided from the room by a C20
passage, the panelling continues below the dado round a
moulded architrave to a former window which is blocked.
Both rooms to the 1st-floor front have chamfered beams with
run-out stops. A stack at the rear between the rooms has C19
cast-iron fireplaces in the angled chimney-breasts. The door
to the left-hand room is planked with fine wrought-iron strap
hinges. The attic to the rear wing has a 4-bay collar-truss
roof with tenoned purlins and a ridge-in-notch.

Listing NGR: ST9221273310

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558274

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Recommended Books

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  For the Record
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)