51, ST MARY STREET
51, ST MARY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267948
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 51, ST MARY STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 51, ST MARY STREET
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- 2002-09-10
- Reference:
- IOE01/09061/25
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267948
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 51, ST MARY STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 51, 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:
- 51, 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 92339 73191
Details
CHIPPENHAM
ST9273SW ST MARY STREET 930-1/10/195 (East side) 25/04/50 No.51
GV II
House. C16, refronted c1800. Limestone ashlar, stone slate roof, ashlar ridge stacks to left-of-centre of main block and rear wing. 2-unit plan with right-hand passage and rear left wing. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 5-window range. Eaves cornice and platbands; bracketed gutter; 6/6-pane sash windows, 2 pairs to the left, some with old glass. Pediment on moulded brackets and moulded architrave to C18 door with 6 raised-and-fielded panels. Rear, facing east: the mid C17 3-storey rear wing of limestone rubble is gabled to the south and rear, with a large ashlar ridge stack and hoodmoulds to 2- and 3-light stone-mullioned windows with ovolo mouldings; that to the rear ground floor is large, with C20 leaded glazing, possibly enlarged using original mullions in C18. The gabled return, (south side) has a 6/6-pane 2nd-floor sash window in the gable and a moulded hood on brackets over a wide C17 planked door. INTERIOR: a stone-flagged passage to the right has a plastered-over, probably timber-framed wall to the left and a C20 stone arch to the rear. The room to the left of the passage has an open fire with an oak lintel, an axial beam extends from the chimney-breast through the wall and across the passage. It is moulded to the front and chamfered to the rear with a cut shape to a former junction close to the wall to the passage. The room to the far left has a former C16 panelled ceiling with moulded beams. Some of the panels to the rear have been almost filled, leaving only the base of the moulded beams exposed, beams to the front have been removed; to the rear a C20 plank-and-muntin screen divides the room from a C20 splat-balustered staircase. The 1st room to the rear wing, now a kitchen, has an ogee-stopped chamfered cross-beam and a restored stone fireplace to the rear; the room to the far rear has rough cross-beam and a wide C17 planked door with lock and key, to the courtyard. The room to the 1st-floor of the right wing, above the kitchen, has a chamfered cross-beam and some C17 panelling with a small cupboard to the left of an open fire. The room to the rear has part of a C16 panelled ceiling with moulded beams; the purlin and rafter-ends of the roof are exposed at the junction of the south-facing gable. The attic has a 3-bay collar-beam roof with tenoned purlins, oak floorboards and a painted C17 oak planked door.
Listing NGR: ST9234373194
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462424
- 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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