RUSKIN COTTAGE

1-7, ST MARY'S PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244340
Date first listed:: 07-Dec-1993
List Entry Name:: RUSKIN COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: 1-7, ST MARY'S PLACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1244340
Date first listed:: 07-Dec-1993
List Entry Name:: RUSKIN COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: 1-7, ST MARY'S PLACE
Statutory Address 2:: RUSKIN COTTAGE, ST MARY'S PLACE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 1-7, ST MARY'S PLACE
Statutory Address:: RUSKIN COTTAGE, ST MARY'S PLACE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Chippenham
National Grid Reference:: ST 91951 73533

Details

CHIPPENHAM ST MARY'S PLACE ST 9173 SE (south east side) 3/10005 Numbers 1-7 (consec) and Ruskin Cottage

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House and attached row of 7 cottages. c1850s. Ruskin Cottage of limestone ashlar, others of coursed and dressed limestone; slate and concrete tile roofs, each dwelling with moulded cornicing to end stacks. Ruskin Cottage of double-depth plan; cottages each with parlour to front and rear service wing. Ruskin Cottage of 3 storeys with basement; 2-window first-floor south-west front has horned 6/6-pane and 8/8-pane sashes, with decorative cast-iron first-floor balcony. Nos 1-7 of 2 storeys and each of 2-window first-floor range: plain raised architraves to 6/6-pane first-floor sashes and 3/6-pane ground-floor sashes, with some later C19 and C20 replacements (to Nos 4,5 and 6), and to panelled doors (C20 replacements to Nos 4-6) with overlights. Interiors not inspected. A well-preserved row of workers' housing, built in an area developed for housing and industry after the arrival of the railway in 1840-1 and similar in style to cottages erected for workers at the Rowland. Brotherhood's engineering works - Nos 52-67 Marshfield Road (qv).

Listing NGR: ST9195173533

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Legacy System number:: 449380
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.