Wiltshire Area Health Authority Headquarters
WILTSHIRE AREA HEALTH AUTHORITY HEADQUARTERS, 53, ROWDEN HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267928
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Wiltshire Area Health Authority Headquarters
- Statutory Address:
- WILTSHIRE AREA HEALTH AUTHORITY HEADQUARTERS, 53, ROWDEN HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267928
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Wiltshire Area Health Authority Headquarters
- Statutory Address 1:
- WILTSHIRE AREA HEALTH AUTHORITY HEADQUARTERS, 53, ROWDEN HILL
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:
- WILTSHIRE AREA HEALTH AUTHORITY HEADQUARTERS, 53, ROWDEN HILL
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 91199 72665
Details
CHIPPENHAM
ST9172 ROWDEN HILL 930-1/11/175 (East side) 22/06/78 No.53 Wiltshire Area Health Authority Headquarters
II
Large house, now offices. c1870. Limestone ashlar, hipped slate roof with moulded ashlar stacks to the front slope and rear. Eclectic style, mostly Classical with some Rundbogen details. L-shaped plan with C20 wing to the rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. Plate-glass sash windows. The entrance facade facing north has chamfered rusticated quoins, eaves band, platband and plinth and a modillion cornice to eaves and pediment. The pediment, over the stepped-forward central bay, has an ornamented oculus to the tympanum. 2-light windows to the 1st floor have semicircular-arched moulded archivolts with ornamented keystones and imposts and triple-bracketed sills to paired semicircular-arched sash windows. Ground-floor windows have moulded architraves and cornices on consoles over segmental-arched sashes. The large chamfered rusticated ashlar porch has an arch to each side with keystones to moulded archivolts on an impost string course. The front arch is flanked by small recesses below the string course. The parapet to the porch is pierced circles between panelled piers. The west garden front is similar but the central bay is wider, a larger pediment has shields in the tympanum over a 4-light window and a canted bay similar to the porch, but with moulded architraves and keystones to full-height segmental-arched sash windows. INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: ST9119972665
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462404
- 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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