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Latitude: 51.4588 / 51°27'31"N
Longitude: -2.1183 / 2°7'6"W
OS Eastings: 391874
OS Northings: 173316
OS Grid: ST918733
Mapcode National: GBR 1R5.K87
Mapcode Global: VH96C.7LGK
Plus Code: 9C3VFV5J+GM
Entry Name: Avon Bridge House
Listing Date: 22 June 1978
Last Amended: 16 September 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1268166
English Heritage Legacy ID: 462176
ID on this website: 101268166
Location: Gladstone Parade, Wiltshire, SN15
County: Wiltshire
Civil Parish: Chippenham
Built-Up Area: Chippenham
Traditional County: Wiltshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire
Church of England Parish: Chippenham with Tytherton Lucas
Church of England Diocese: Bristol
Tagged with: House
CHIPPENHAM
ST9173SE BATH ROAD
930-1/9/2 (South side)
22/06/78 Avon Bridge House
(Formerly Listed as:
BATH ROAD
(South side)
Nestle's Warehouses)
II
Warehouses and factory, now offices. c1873 and later
rebuilding of an earlier cloth factory. Squared coursed
limestone rubble with freestone dressings and slate roof.
2 blocks, both rectangular plan (and part of a wall to 3rd
block to the left, east, now demolished).
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; block to the left 10-window
range, taller block to the right 18-window range. C20 glazing
to tall segmental-arched windows with rusticated architraves;
similar quoins and jambs to wide segmental arches and to each
end and centre. The block to the left has a more steeply
pitched roof, a blank left return and a pyramidal bellcote
(restored); the block to the right has stone coping over
stepped freestone blocks to the right return which has one
window to the attic, 3 to the 1st floor and one to the ground
floor.
INTERIOR: not inspected but noted as retaining original
cast-iron columns and beams.
HISTORY: the site was acquired in 1873 by the National
Anglo-Swiss Milk Company for their 1st factory in Britain.
(Jefferies S (Chippenham Civic Society): A Chippenham
Collection: Chippenham: 1987-: 45-46).
Listing NGR: ST9187473316
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