Stable, Garden Wall and Gate Piers to Number 55 (The Grove)

STABLE, GARDEN WALL AND GATE PIERS TO NUMBER 55 (THE GROVE), ST MARY STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1267911
Date first listed:
22-Jun-1978
List Entry Name:
Stable, Garden Wall and Gate Piers to Number 55 (The Grove)
Statutory Address:
STABLE, GARDEN WALL AND GATE PIERS TO NUMBER 55 (THE GROVE), ST MARY STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1267911
Date first listed:
22-Jun-1978
Date of most recent amendment:
16-Sept-1996
List Entry Name:
Stable, Garden Wall and Gate Piers to Number 55 (The Grove)
Statutory Address 1:
STABLE, GARDEN WALL AND GATE PIERS TO NUMBER 55 (THE GROVE), ST MARY STREET

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
STABLE, GARDEN WALL AND GATE PIERS TO NUMBER 55 (THE GROVE), ST MARY STREET

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 92291 73300

Details

CHIPPENHAM

ST9273SW ST MARY STREET 930-1/10/209 (East side) 22/06/78 Stable, garden wall and gate piers to No.55 (The Grove) (Formerly Listed as: ST MARY STREET Garden wall and gate piers at No.55 (The Grove)) (Formerly Listed as: ST MARY STREET (East side) Stable at No.55 (The Grove))

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Stable, walls and gate piers. Early C18. Limestone rubble with freestone quoins and dressings; double-Roman tile roof coped, with gabled finials and moulded kneelers to gable ends. Rectangular plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; no windows to the 1st floor. The street front (west) has a semicircular-arched loading bay to the 1st floor with a C20 planked door; to the right of the south gable end is a chamfered freestone architrave to an early C19 6-panel door with flush panels and a timber lintel to a small window opening to the left. The east front, facing the garden has two 2-light stone-mullioned windows with stepped cyma moulding under a continuous hoodmould to the ground floor. The north wall is blank. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: a rubblestone garden wall with freestone capping, approx 2m high, borders the garden onto St Mary Street (west), and extends approx 22m to the north where it is attached to No.55, The Grove (qv). It also extends approx 35m to the south of the stable. Close to the house is an early C18 rusticated stone architrave and broken pediment to a 6-panel door. Close to the south corner of the stable are 2 ashlar gate piers with pyramidal caps to C19 diagonally-planked double gates (restored C20) with spiked tops.

Listing NGR: ST9229173300

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Legacy System number:
462430
Legacy System:
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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.

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