The Grove

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CHIPPENHAM

ST9273SW ST MARY STREET 930-1/10/199 (East side) 25/04/50 No.55 The Grove

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House at a right angle to the road, facing south, built in 4 blocks. C17, successively extended to right of front in early C18, early and mid C19. MATERIALS: limestone rubble with freestone quoins to the C17 and C18 blocks, ashlar to the rest; stone slate roof to centre, right and part of rear, Welsh slate to left and part of rear; ashlar stacks to gable ends and rear, brick shafts to some. PLAN: each block is one-unit plan, the C17 block to the left (i) was originally a through-passage plan, probably 2 or more units with rear stair turret; the early C18 central block (ii) has a single-storey rear passage and small rear room; early/mid C19 extension to right (iii). EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; 7-window range (2 to each block and one to the C19 extension to the right). i). The C17 (left) block is set back with a steeply-pitched Welsh slate roof. The quoins rise to 2 storeys. To the garden front a C18 high parapet has been added with a pedimented dormer to a 2-light casement window behind. To the 1st floor are timber lintels to central paired C19 sash windows and a 6/6-pane sash to the right. An early C19 cast-iron trellis to a former canopy spans this block. To the centre of the ground floor is a moulded architrave to early C19 French windows with margin panes, to the right is a C20 half-glazed door. The rear has moulded architraves to a 6/6-pane sash window. ii). The early C18 block to the centre has a stone slate roof hipped to the front and right, gabled to the left; chamfered rusticated quoins; eaves cornice; moulded architraves to 6/6-pane sash windows with crown glass to the 1st floor over a cornice and blocking course to an early C19 splayed bay of 3 equal facades. The bay has French windows with margin panes and crown glass. The left return has one 6/6-pane sash window to each floor; that to the ground floor (temporarily blocked) in an early C18 moulded architrave with cornice, partly covered by the trellis. iii). The mid C19 stone-slated wing to the right is lower and cants forward with one 6/6-pane sash window to the 1st floor over a large blind 8/8-pane sash window with painted glazing bars; to the left is a smaller 8/8-pane sash window, all with raised surrounds and bracketed sills; platband between floors. To the far right is an ashlar single-storey lean-to with a 3-light metal casement window. Another smaller windowless lean-to is the the far right stepped down the slope toward the River Avon. To rear: to the 1st-floor right is a 2-light stone-mullioned window with edge-roll moulding and leaded glazing, fixed to the right and with a small-paned metal casement to the left. To the left is a 6/6-pane sash window. The eaves cornice formerly continuing along the right return is stopped above the rear quoin. A brick stack to a rear corner fireplace. INTERIOR: the west wall (to the street), of the room to the left is approx 1.5m thick and houses an open fire with a C17 cyma-moulded architrave and a segmental, almost semicircular-arched shaft to a window to the right; an ogee-stopped lateral beam is above the fireplace. Early C18 full-height panelling, coved cornice, and to the rear right is a recess with shaped shelves. The entrance hall has raised-and-fielded panelling below a dado rail; to the rear, in the stair turret is a newel stair with an early C18 wide swept rail and turned balusters. The entrance to the central C18 block is pointed-arched. The main room to the front has an early C18 box cornice and full-height raised-and-fielded panelling, wide floor boards and a late C19 fireplace.

Listing NGR: ST9227473325

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