Description

CHIPPENHAM

ST9273SW MARKET PLACE
930-1/10/106 (East side)
25/04/50 Nos.33 AND 34
London Buildings and wall attached
to the rear

GV II

Two houses on a corner to the south-east of the market place,
now shops and offices. Early and mid C18 with C17 wing to rear
of No.34. No.33, facing west, is mid C18. Painted limestone
ashlar with a slate roof. Double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. Pilasters,
cornice and parapet. Two C20 windows to the 2nd floor flank a
blind window with painted glazing bars. 2 early C19 sash
windows with 4/8 panes to the 1st floor flank a 6/6-pane
semicircular-arched sash.
A fine mid C19 Classical-style timber shop front has Tuscan
pilasters with patera to the cornices, one to each side and
pairs flanking a C20 door, which support a fascia with a
modillion cornice and central pediment with carved shield and
foliage to the tympanum.
No.34 is early C18 with a C17 rear wing to the west side of
the churchyard. Painted roughcast over limestone rubble,
freestone chamfered block pilasters, cornice, restored
parapet, moulded architraves and hipped double-Roman tile roof
to the front block, steep-pitched slate to the rear wing.
3-unit plan parallel to No.33. 2 storeys; 6-window range.
Thick glazing bars and crown glass to early C18 6-over-6-pane
sash windows to the 1st floor, C20 shop fronts to the ground
floor. To the inside left is a hood on brackets flanked by C19
shop windows. That to the left has a door to the right and a
fascia and cornice, that to the right is projecting and larger
with 3 plate-glass panes below a fascia and cornice.
The left return has a truncated brick stack corbelled out at
the 1st floor, a C19 3-light casement window at eaves level to
the rear wing, and a 3-light leaded window to the gable end of
the rear wing. Various C19 and C20 openings to the ground
floor.
INTERIOR: this was originally one building, the cellar is
continuous (part now blocked). The C17 rear wing has a 3-bay
collar-beam roof and oak floor boards. The early C18 block is
also 3 bays with collar beams and oak floor boards. The 1st
floor right-hand room of the main block (now part of No.33)
has full-height raised-and-fielded panelling, a box cornice
and a painted stone open fire with roll-edge moulding to the
intrados and cyma moulding to the extrados. The C20 stairs to
the centre (replacing the original) have an early C18 swept
dado with raised and fielded panelling below.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: a coped limestone rubble wall approx 2.5m
high attached to the south-east corner of the rear wing extends approx 8m and fronts the Caretaker's Cottage of the
Jubilee Building (qv). It has a stone lintel to a central C20
door and a blocked 2-light window to the left.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Cherry B: Wiltshire:
London: 1967-1975: 169).

Listing NGR: ST9224473198

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558388

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability