Description

CHIPPENHAM

ST9273SW MARKET PLACE
930-1/10/99 (East side)
22/06/78 Nos.18 AND 20

GV II

Two houses on corner site, now shops. Early C18, remodelled
early C19. Limestone ashlar, painted to the front (east),
rendered to the right of the left return in Lord's Lane;
2 gabled dormers and right-of-centre brick ridge stack to the
crested triple-Roman tile roof, half-hipped to the right,
raised over C19 higher rear wings, one with a brick ridge
stack. L-shaped plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic to the front; 4-window range. 3
storeys to left return; 3-window range. C19 2-light casement
windows to the dormers, plate-glass sash windows in raised
surrounds to the 1st floor, moulded cornice and coping to the
parapet. c1970s' shop to ground floor, the fascia of which
continues as an arcade into Lord's Lane where the 2nd-floor
windows are at eaves level, that to the right, in the rendered
gable end of the original building, is below a former
tie-beam. The window to the centre is a notable surviving
example of C18 horizontal-sliding sash with 9 panes to each
leaf, that to the left has thick glazing bars to a 9-pane
fixed window. The windows to the lower floors have raised
surrounds with roll edges to inner and outer arrisses; thick
glazing bars to paired 6/6-pane sashes to the 1st-floor centre
and similar windows with thin glazing bars below. C20 paired
windows and a door to the far left have a horned 6/6-pane sash
window above.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: ST9220073160

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558379

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