Description

CHIPPENHAM

ST9273SW ST MARY STREET
930-1/10/195 (East side)
25/04/50 No.51

GV II

House. C16, refronted c1800. Limestone ashlar, stone slate
roof, ashlar ridge stacks to left-of-centre of main block and
rear wing. 2-unit plan with right-hand passage and rear left
wing.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 5-window range. Eaves cornice and
platbands; bracketed gutter; 6/6-pane sash windows, 2 pairs to
the left, some with old glass. Pediment on moulded brackets
and moulded architrave to C18 door with 6 raised-and-fielded
panels.
Rear, facing east: the mid C17 3-storey rear wing of limestone
rubble is gabled to the south and rear, with a large ashlar
ridge stack and hoodmoulds to 2- and 3-light stone-mullioned
windows with ovolo mouldings; that to the rear ground floor is
large, with C20 leaded glazing, possibly enlarged using
original mullions in C18. The gabled return, (south side) has
a 6/6-pane 2nd-floor sash window in the gable and a moulded
hood on brackets over a wide C17 planked door.
INTERIOR: a stone-flagged passage to the right has a
plastered-over, probably timber-framed wall to the left and a
C20 stone arch to the rear. The room to the left of the
passage has an open fire with an oak lintel, an axial beam
extends from the chimney-breast through the wall and across
the passage. It is moulded to the front and chamfered to the
rear with a cut shape to a former junction close to the wall
to the passage. The room to the far left has a former C16
panelled ceiling with moulded beams. Some of the panels to the
rear have been almost filled, leaving only the base of the
moulded beams exposed, beams to the front have been removed;
to the rear a C20 plank-and-muntin screen divides the room
from a C20 splat-balustered staircase. The 1st room to the
rear wing, now a kitchen, has an ogee-stopped chamfered
cross-beam and a restored stone fireplace to the rear; the
room to the far rear has rough cross-beam and a wide C17
planked door with lock and key, to the courtyard.
The room to the 1st-floor of the right wing, above the
kitchen, has a chamfered cross-beam and some C17 panelling
with a small cupboard to the left of an open fire. The room to
the rear has part of a C16 panelled ceiling with moulded
beams; the purlin and rafter-ends of the roof are exposed at
the junction of the south-facing gable.
The attic has a 3-bay collar-beam roof with tenoned purlins,
oak floorboards and a painted C17 oak planked door.

Listing NGR: ST9234373194

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558302

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