Tudor House
TUDOR HOUSE, 53, THE CAUSEWAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267847
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Tudor House
- Statutory Address:
- TUDOR HOUSE, 53, THE CAUSEWAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267847
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Tudor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TUDOR HOUSE, 53, THE CAUSEWAY
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- TUDOR HOUSE, 53, THE CAUSEWAY
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 92268 73136
Details
CHIPPENHAM
ST9273SW THE CAUSEWAY 930-1/10/247 (East side) 25/04/50 No.53 Tudor House
GV II
House, now a shop. Late C17. Timber-framed with plastered panels; stone slate roof to the front, including 3 dormers; double-Roman tiles to the rear wing; brick stacks to the rear of the main block and rear-left of the rear wing. L-shaped plan with parallel rear range, (U-shaped). EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic; 3-window range. The central dormer is hipped, flanked by gabled dormers, all with C19 2-light casement windows. The 1st floor is close-studded with a jettied gabled central 4-light mullioned and transomed bay window flanked by pargetted panels, 2-light transomed casement windows and diagonal bracing to the outer corners. To the ground floor, the bay is flanked by slate pent roofs over rectangular shop-window bays which flank the C20 door in a C17 moulded architrave. To the right, under the pent roof, is a C17 stud-and-panel door with wrought-iron strap hinges. The right return has a 3-light leaded casement to the 1st floor with C17 translucent glass over a fixed window of 3 rows of 7 panes. The gable of the rear block is timber-framed with soft eroded red-brick nogging, the main wall is stretcher-bond brick with one C19 window to both floors. INTERIOR: flanking the central passage from the front block to the rear are C17 planked doors with fine wrought-iron strap hinges; that to the right leads to the cellar. The winder stair above it has splat balusters and square newels. The room to the rear wing has an oak bressumer over a stone Tudor-arched architrave with plain spandrels to an open fire which backs onto the front block; exposed close studding and rafters; a chamfered cross-beam; a fixed window to the right, of 3 rows of 7 small panes. The room to the left of the rear block has a smaller open fire with a moulded architrave to the rear left; stone stairs to the centre; the kitchen to the right has exposed rafters. The roofs to front and rear blocks are 3-bays, that to the front with external purlins, windbraces and wide oak floorboards; that to the rear with threaded purlins. C17 planked doors and one thin C18 2-panel door to the attic with large lock and key. Stone steps to the cellar under the front block which has one chamfered crossbeam. A fine late C17 town house exhibiting a characteristic late use of timber-framing.
Listing NGR: ST9226873136
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462496
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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