Description

CHIPPENHAM

ST9074SE BRISTOL ROAD
930-1/2/7 Nos.23 AND 33
22/06/78 The Folly
(Formerly Listed as:
BRISTOL ROAD
Nos.23 AND 33)

GV II

House. Dated 1693, with C18 and early C19 rear wings. Painted
C20 incised render over limestone rubble, freestone dressings
and quoins, hipped stone slate roof with 2 small hipped
dormers, brick stacks to the rear wall and the gable ends of
the rear wings. 2-unit plan with 2 rear wings.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic and cellar; symmetrical
3-window range. Stone-mullioned windows with C20 casements,
2-light above the door, 3-lights to the rest; those flanking
the door have cyma-moulded architraves, others have ovolo
mouldings. The returns have similar windows, blocked with soft
red brick to the left return. The C17 moulded architrave to
the door has worn stops and "A R A 1693" above it, a C18
6-panel door glazed to the top and a C20 gabled porch.
The rear wings are C18 with early C19 extensions. The rear
left wing is No.33; it has C20 casements to plain
stone-mullioned windows, C20 door and rear extension.
INTERIOR: stone-flagged hall with C20 stairs to the rear; the
room to the left has a chamfered cross-beam and a 6-panel
door. The room to the right has a planked door with
wrought-iron strap hinges; a stone-flagged floor; an open fire
with a timber lintel and cavity to the left, a possible former
smoking chamber, which extended to the floor above and the
cellar below; a chamfered cross-beam and a C18 architrave to
the door to the rear right leading to the rear service wing.
This has a slate floor and a brick surround to an open fire.
To the left of the stairs a planked door and stone steps lead
down to the cellar under the left-hand room. The cellar is
almost Tudor-arched barrel-vaulted, with a stone floor and
working well to the front right which has a lead overflow pipe
below floor level. 3-bay roof with tenoned purlins.
The rear left wing (No.33) has a small door to the rear left
leading down to the cellar and one chamfered beam and a C19
brick open fire with a metal support to the segmental arch.
The 3-bay roof has morticed purlins.
HISTORY: the house named The Folly was mentioned in a will of
AR Aland in 1791 when it was part of the Hardenhuish estate.
The Alands were wealthy clothiers in the C17 and early C18.
The Reverend Francis Kilvert (1841-1879) of diary fame, is
known to have lived here; his father was Rector of Hardenhuish
from 1838-1847.
(Chamberlain, Joseph A: Chippenham: Chippenham: 1976-: 174).

Listing NGR: ST9078874092

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558484

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