This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
CALNE
ST9971 MARKET HILL 755-1/4/93 (North side) 19/05/50 No.3
GV II*
Formerly known as: St Brigett's, St Mary's School MARKET HILL.
House, school, now offices. Dated 1683, restored c1980. Rendered limestone rubble, ashlar right-hand lateral stack and stone slate hipped roof with flat, leaded centre. Double-depth plan with right-hand stair. 3 storeys, attic and cellar; 3-window range. Road front has a first-floor drip course; right of centre entrance with an early C19 timber bracketed pediment, ashlar surround and 6-panel door, with wrought-iron rails to steps up. Early or mid C19 ground-floor 6/6-pane sashes, paired to the left; bolection-moulded architraves to late C18 6/6-pane first-floor sashes, and original stone-mullioned and transomed second-floor cavetto-moulded cross windows. W front has a continuous ground-floor label mould and first-floor string, with bolection-moulded paired ground-floor 6/6-pane sashes, and original 3- and central 2-light cross windows above; 2 late C20 hipped dormers, replacing a central one. Central sundial inscribed 1683. 2 similar cross windows light stairs to right-hand return. INTERIOR: details include a fine late C17 dogleg stair with turned balusters, square panelled newels, uncut string; fully panelled rear right-hand room and fire surround; vaulted cellar; C18 roof with plastered central room and 3-plank door, inscribed JG/1786; original 2-panel doors; first-floor C19 Egyptian Revival hob grates in bolection-moulded surrounds. The front room has a fine C17 stone fire surround and overmantel from Castle House (qv), with a carved central panel of a burning crocodile, and 2 figures supporting a painted cartouche. The flat, leaded roof may formerly have supported a lantern.
Listing NGR: ST9968671037
This is part of the Series: IOE01/1485 IOE Records taken by David Nunn; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© Mr David Nunn. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Nunn, David
Rights Holder: Nunn, David
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