Description

CHIPPENHAM

ST9173SE BATH ROAD
930-1/9/1 (North side)
22/06/78 Bank House
(Formerly Listed as:
BATH ROAD
Nestle's Office)

II

Offices. c1873. Squared, coursed limestone rubble with
freestone dressings, slate roof with central ashlar ridge
stack. 2-room central-entry plan with rear wing.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic; symmetrical 3-window range.
The moulded stack has a continuous coping above the flues;
gabled dormers with wide bracketed eaves and C20 2-light
casement windows; wide eaves, swept and bracketed with
tie-beam, archbraces, pendants and finial to the bargeboards
of the gable ends; chamfered rusticated quoins; rusticated
freestone architraves to plate-glass sash windows; the right
return has a single-storey canted bay with a hipped freestone
roof, one sash window to the 1st floor and an oculus to the
apex; C20 steps and ramp to a prostyle portico with a
balustraded parapet over square columns, paired to the front;
double doors with bolection moulding to small panels.
INTERIOR: not inspected but noted as having half-panelled
rooms and a marble fireplace.
Probably built c1873 and erected as offices to the Nestle's
Warehouse and Factory (qv).

Listing NGR: ST9190073350

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26558510

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