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18, St Mary Street

A Grade II* Listed Building in Chippenham, Wiltshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4571 / 51°27'25"N

Longitude: -2.1115 / 2°6'41"W

OS Eastings: 392350

OS Northings: 173126

OS Grid: ST923731

Mapcode National: GBR 2SJ.M02

Mapcode Global: VH96C.CM3W

Plus Code: 9C3VFV4Q+RC

Entry Name: 18, St Mary Street

Listing Date: 22 June 1978

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1267942

English Heritage Legacy ID: 462418

ID on this website: 101267942

Location: Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15

County: Wiltshire

Civil Parish: Chippenham

Built-Up Area: Chippenham

Traditional County: Wiltshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire

Church of England Parish: Chippenham with Tytherton Lucas

Church of England Diocese: Bristol

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Description



CHIPPENHAM

ST9273SW ST MARY STREET
930-1/10/189 (West side)
22/06/78 No.18

GV II*

House. Early C18 refronting of late medieval property.
Originally timber-framed, now exposed only on right-return
wall with middle rail to close studding; rendered limestone
rubble with ashlar quoins; some C19 brick to rear; parapeted
slate roof; ashlar stacks.
PLAN: 4-unit front range, originally timber-framed and
heightened by one storey in early C18; rear right range makes
L-plan, and has originally-jettied 3-bay range to front,
including workshops/warehousing to upper floors, interrupted
by bay roofed at right angles from further 3 bays to rear; the
2 right-angled bays are all that now remains of a rear range
which, parallel to the front and adjacent to a left-hand
jettied range, enclosed a courtyard to the rear.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; virtually symmetrical 7-window range.
Moulded cornice and string courses between floors; parapet;
plinth; forward frames to 6/6-pane sash windows, paired to the
left of centre; stone doorcase with engaged Tuscan columns,
cornice, entablature and pediment. Steps up to a recessed
panelled door with raised and fielded panels. Adjoining the
rear right wing is a reset C14 pier with moulded capital.
INTERIOR: the front range has early timber-frame mostly
obscured by later work and one exposed C16 chamfered beam to
ground floor; it has retained much original joinery of C18
date, including early C18 bolection-moulded panelling with box
cornicing and original shuttering, c1770s reeded and Greek key
dados; the cornicing in 2 ground floor rooms is unusually
arranged to enclose 2 small square areas, the one to the
right-hand hall possibly to an original lightwell; late C18
neoclassical hob grate to 1st floor left and early C18 moulded
architrave to fireplace on 1st-floor right. Short rear left
wing of early C16 date, mostly demolished and rebuilt in 1994,
but retains C16 stone fireplace and evidence in surviving
timber-frame of original jettied construction.
3-bay rear right wing of late C16 date has interesting roof
with in-line butt purlins and collar trusses with windbraces
and queen posts morticed into bridging beams; omission of tie
beams, to facilitate working headroom, and line of originally
shuttered windows beneath eaves are indicative of this area's
former use as a warehouse or workshop space; ground floor room
has early C18 fielded panelling. The 2 bays to rear of this,
which are roofed at right angles and form the surving part of
a range which originally enclosed the rear of the courtyard,
have much reset medieval framing, mostly smoke-blackened.
3-bay range to rear also with smoke-blackened trusses with
threaded ridge purlins.
An interesting and significant survivng example of a C15/C16
large merchant's house, including warehouse/workshop
accommodation, which would deserve a detailed record before
its complex building history could be elucidated; the C18
work, particularly the internal joinery, makes an important
contribution the interest of this property.


Listing NGR: ST9234473128

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