56, ST MARY STREET
56, ST MARY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267912
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1978
- List Entry Name:
- 56, ST MARY STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 56, ST MARY STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/09061/19
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267912
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1978
- List Entry Name:
- 56, ST MARY STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 56, ST MARY STREET
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:
- 56, 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 92262 73318
Details
CHIPPENHAM
ST9273SW ST MARY STREET 930-1/10/200 No.56 22/06/78
GV II
House. Probably late medieval with mid/late C17 remodelling and C19 rear extension. Limestone rubble with freestone quoins and plinth, stone slate roof with brick stacks to right gable end and rear slope of left gable end. L-shaped plan with 2-unit central entry front block. EXTERIOR: one storey with attic to the front, 2 storeys to the rear; 2-window range. Timber lintels to C20 windows, except those to the attic which have ovolo architraves and were formerly 2-light mullioned windows, now C19 horizontal sliding sashes. Of the 2 gabled full dormers to the attic, that to the left is of a steeper pitch; a wrought-iron bracketed gutter spans the facade at sill level. A freestone rusticated door case with edge-roll moulding has a C20 planked door and gabled hood flanked by C20 small-paned windows. To the far right is a rusticated freestone segmental-arched architrave to a planked door, entrance to No.55 (qv) The rendered left gable end has been rebuilt. The roof of the rear right wing is of a shallower pitch with freestone quoins (probably later); bracketed gutter; casement windows of various dates, (C19 and C20). INTERIOR: a cruck to the right gable end and part of a cruck and collar truss to the left end remain. (Wiltshire Building Record: 1988-).
Listing NGR: ST9226273318
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462431
- 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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