Falstaff Villas and Attached Front Walls and Gate Piers
FALSTAFF VILLAS AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS AND GATE PIERS, 39 AND 40, MARSHFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268002
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Falstaff Villas and Attached Front Walls and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address:
- FALSTAFF VILLAS AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS AND GATE PIERS, 39 AND 40, MARSHFIELD ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268002
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Falstaff Villas and Attached Front Walls and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- FALSTAFF VILLAS AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS AND GATE PIERS, 39 AND 40, MARSHFIELD 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:
- FALSTAFF VILLAS AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS AND GATE PIERS, 39 AND 40, MARSHFIELD 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 91462 73820
Details
CHIPPENHAM
ST9173NW MARSHFIELD ROAD 930-1/5/269 (North side) 22/06/78 Nos.39 AND 40 Falstaff Villas and attached front walls and gate piers (Formerly Listed as: MARSHFIELD ROAD (North side) Nos.37-40 (Consecutive))
GV II
Pair of semi-detached houses. c1870. Squared limestone rubble with freestone dressings to the facade, English-bond brick to the rest; hipped slate roofs and axial ashlar ridge stacks with plinths and cornices. Double-depth plans. EXTERIOR: the pair is symmetrical, each house is 2-window range. Plate glass sash windows to the 1st floor have moulded architraves dying into the eaves cornice and continuous sill band. The central paired doors are set in stone Tuscan doorcases which have a shared dentilled pediment with a carved tympanum and urn finial. To the sides are canted bays with cornices and blocking courses. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the front gardens are enclosed by low rubblestone walls with chamfered capping articulated by large piers with dentilled cornices and pyramidal caps.
Listing NGR: ST9146273820
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462355
- 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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