Description

CHIPPENHAM

ST9173NW MARSHFIELD ROAD
930-1/5/269 (North side)
22/06/78 Nos.39 AND 40
Falstaff Villas and attached front
walls and gate piers
(Formerly Listed as:
MARSHFIELD ROAD
(North side)
Nos.37-40 (Consecutive))

GV II

Pair of semi-detached houses. c1870. Squared limestone rubble
with freestone dressings to the facade, English-bond brick to
the rest; hipped slate roofs and axial ashlar ridge stacks
with plinths and cornices. Double-depth plans.
EXTERIOR: the pair is symmetrical, each house is 2-window
range. Plate glass sash windows to the 1st floor have moulded
architraves dying into the eaves cornice and continuous sill
band. The central paired doors are set in stone Tuscan
doorcases which have a shared dentilled pediment with a carved
tympanum and urn finial. To the sides are canted bays with
cornices and blocking courses.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the front gardens are enclosed by low
rubblestone walls with chamfered capping articulated by large
piers with dentilled cornices and pyramidal caps.

Listing NGR: ST9146273820

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558353

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Recommended Books

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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair