Description

CHIPPENHAM

ST9273SW MARKET PLACE
930-1/10/112 (North side)
25/04/50 Nos.46 AND 47

GV II

Part of an inn, now a shop and offices. C16, refronted early
C18 with C18 lower rear wing. Painted and rendered limestone
ashlar, painted freestone chamfered rusticated pilasters,
modillion cornice and parapet balustraded above the windows,
lintel cornice and sillband to the 1st floor; double-Roman
tile roof hipped to the front, rough ashlar, double-Roman tile
and slate roofs with a brick ridge stack to the rear wing.
PLAN: 2-unit with rear right wing in 2 stages.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 3-window range. 3/6-pane sash windows to
the 2nd floor, 6/6-pane sashes to the 1st floor except to the
left-of-centre bay which has 6/1 panes. The ranges to the
right are full-height canted bays, the ground-floor parts are
now removed to make flush C20 shop fronts.
INTERIOR: the 4-bay collar-truss roof has trenched purlins and
wind braces (now plastered over). The upper floors extend
across both properties and are part of No.46. The C18 facade
is higher than the former wall; moulded wall plates with the
lower parts of the rafters are exposed on the 2nd floor. The
thick front wall has been pierced to form the bays which have
irregular reveals, that to the 1st-floor right has a moulded
architrave, panelled reveals and early C18 ovolo-moulded
glazing bars, the bay window to the left has the top of the
original opening to a mullioned window. This room has 4
ogee-stopped beams, some early C18 thick skirting boards, and
a C17 8-panel door.
The stairs from the ground floor, to the right, have a moulded
cornice and raised-and-fielded panelling below a swept dado
rail. At the top of the stairs, against the rear wall, is a
cupboard with raised-and-fielded panels above
semicircular-arched double doors, glazed to the top. To the
centre of the C18 rear right wing is a dogleg closed-string
oak staircase with turned balusters and a straight moulded
handrail.
The rear wing has chamfered beams, a 4-light stone-mullioned
window and an open fire to the rear.
HISTORY: the remodelled building was formerly part of the
White Hart Inn, known as Ye Harte in 1548 when it probably
extended across the sites of Nos 44 to 48 Market Place (qv).
Oliver Cromwell and Robert Peel are known to have stayed here.
The importance of the inn declined with the coming of the
railway and it was sold for private use in 1850.
(Chamberlain, Joseph A: Chippenham: Chippenham: 1976-: 132;
The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Cherry B: Wiltshire:
London: 1967-1975: 170).

Listing NGR: ST9216073281

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558396

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