Description

CHIPPENHAM

ST9273SW ST MARY STREET
930-1/10/190 (West side)
25/04/50 No.19

GV II*

House. Early C18 with early C19 rear wing. Limestone ashlar
with rubblestone plinth, rubblestone to the rear, stone slate
mansard roof hipped to the left, ashlar stacks to rear, that
to the rear wing is brick with a moulded ashlar shaft. Central
stair-hall plan with rear right wing.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic and basement; symmetrical
5-window range. Fine moulded cornice, high parapet with
moulded coping, ground-floor lintel string course and
chamfered rusticated quoins. Painted moulded architraves to
C18 6-over-6-pane sash windows with thick glazing bars. The
central bay is stepped slightly forward with pediments to the
cornice and lintel string, which is on brackets, over the
door. Steps up to a 6-panel door with raised and fielded
panels, a margin-paned overlight and moulded architrave. Plain
stone mullion to a 2-light basement window to the right.
Cyma-moulded mullion to a 2-light window in the gable of the
left return.
The rear has 2 hipped dormers and two 6/6-pane sash windows in
moulded architraves. The early C19 rear wing has timber
lintels to the openings, a roll-edge moulding to a
margin-paned sash window and a hood on brackets to a central
door.
INTERIOR: the hall has a modillion cornice and an open-well,
open-string staircase with a fluted column newel, swept
handrail and corresponding dado. The ground-floor rooms have
box cornices. A semicircular arch over a straight flight of
stone steps behind the left-hand room, lead to a
barrel-vaulted, stone-flagged cellar below the main building.
The 3-bay roof has tenoned purlins and ridge in notch. The
rear wing has 3 cross-beams and a brick breast to an open
fire.
The facade is of similar design to No.61 (qv), probably of
1702.

Listing NGR: ST9235073111

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17544303

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)