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THE YELDE HALL AND THE COUNCIL CHAMBER

THE YELDE HALL AND THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, MARKET PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1267996
Date first listed:: 24-Apr-1950
List Entry Name:: THE YELDE HALL AND THE COUNCIL CHAMBER
Statutory Address:: THE YELDE HALL AND THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, MARKET PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1267996
Date first listed:: 24-Apr-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: THE YELDE HALL AND THE COUNCIL CHAMBER
Statutory Address 1:: THE YELDE HALL AND THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, MARKET PLACE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: THE YELDE HALL AND THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, MARKET PLACE

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 92183 73234

Details

CHIPPENHAM

ST9273SW MARKET PLACE 930-1/10/136 (North side) 25/04/50 The Yelde Hall and The Council Chamber (Formerly Listed as: MARKET PLACE (North side) The Old Town Hall (The Yelde Hall), The Council Chamber)

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Formerly known as: The Old Fire Station MARKET PLACE. Town hall. Early C15, re-roofed and renewed 1614. Large panel timber-framed with irregularly-spaced uprights and various tension braces on a limestone rubble base with freestone quoins and dressings, stone slate roof. PLAN: 5-bay plan with entry to 4-bay open hall with storeyed end bay. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; one-window range. To the inside-right of the east facade (front) are 2 small gables, that over the door has a plaster coat of arms, J.S. and date 1776. To the far right is an ashlar wall to a small lock-up yard, it has an arched niche with hoodmould and dog-tooth coping to a cornice. The north wall is C16 rubblestone replacing original frame to the ground floor with 2 segmental arched openings below a horizontal sliding sash window with 15 panes to each sash. The north rubblestone wall continues round to the west side for approx 3m with a loophole to the top. The timber-frame then steps down to the plinth. Windows to the west wall have been removed. INTERIOR: 4-bay collar-truss tie-beam hall roof with 2 tiers of windbraces, similar 5th bay to the north. At the north end, upstairs, is the former courtroom and council chamber, including panelling and bailiff's chair. Beneath it was the blind house or lock-up. HISTORY: before 1580, when The shambles was built, the hall had stood alone in the market place. Records exist of a blind house in the C16 (1563) and accounts for renovating in 1614. A notable survival of its type, remarkable for the retention of its large-panelled timber-framing and the 1st-floor council chamber. (Chamberlain, Joseph A: Chippenham: Chippenham: 1976-: 31; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Cherry B: Wiltshire: London: 1967-1975: 169).

Listing NGR: ST9218273236

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Legacy System number:: 462345
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Chamberlain, J A, Chippenham31
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975), 169

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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.