Number 38, 39 and 40 and Attached Walls and Gate Piers
NUMBER 38, 39 AND 40 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATE PIERS, 38, 39 AND 40, NEW ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267950
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Number 38, 39 and 40 and Attached Walls and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 38, 39 AND 40 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATE PIERS, 38, 39 AND 40, NEW ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267950
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Number 38, 39 and 40 and Attached Walls and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 38, 39 AND 40 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATE PIERS, 38, 39 AND 40, NEW ROAD
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:
- NUMBER 38, 39 AND 40 AND ATTACHED WALLS AND GATE PIERS, 38, 39 AND 40, NEW ROAD
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 91863 73733
Details
CHIPPENHAM
ST9173NE NEW ROAD 930-1/6/162 (West side) 22/06/78 Nos.38, 39 AND 40 and attached walls and gate piers
GV II
Terrace of 2 houses and a shop with a flat above. Mid C19. Limestone ashlar, hipped slate roof with moulded ashlar stacks to party walls. Double-depth plans. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 7-window range. A continuous moulded string course forms hoods on brackets to the 2 right-hand houses; bracketed sills to the 1st floor and pilasters to corners and party walls. No.38 to the right is 2-window range with margin panes to plate-glass sash windows and a door with 2 vertical semicircular-arched glazed panels and overlight. No.39 to the centre is similar with C20 windows and door. No.40 to the left is 3-window range. Below the 2 left-hand windows a projecting shop front has a parapet with urn finials to the corners. A former carriage entrance to the right of the shop is now filled with another shop. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: ashlar walls and pyramidal-capped piers enclose the front gardens of Nos 38 and 39. One of a group of houses in New Road built after the arrival of the railway in 1840-41.
Listing NGR: ST9186373733
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462382
- 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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