54 AND 55, MARKET PLACE
54 AND 55, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268010
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1978
- List Entry Name:
- 54 AND 55, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 54 AND 55, MARKET PLACE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268010
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 54 AND 55, MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 54 AND 55, MARKET PLACE
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:
- 54 AND 55, 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 92147 73252
Details
CHIPPENHAM
ST9273SW MARKET PLACE 930-1/10/130 (North side) 22/06/78 Nos.54 AND 55 (Formerly Listed as: MARKET PLACE (North side) Nos.54 AND 55 The Shambles)
GV II
Also known as: Nos.54 AND 55 THE SHAMBLES. Two shops on a corner site. Mid C19. Limestone ashlar, concrete tile roof continuous with No 71 to the right (qv), with wide eaves and moulded ridge stacks to party walls. One-unit plan extending on the 1st floor over the passage to the left. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 2-window range. The facade of No.54, facing north, has 6/6-pane sash windows and platbands between floors. To the right of the ground floor is a semicircular arch with chamfered rusticated voussoirs and keystone over a passage leading the the Yelde Hall (qv). to the left is a 6-panel door and overlight under a hood on console brackets. To the centre is a rectangular projecting shop window of 2 plate-glass panes, colonnettes, fascia moulded cornice and sill. Above the glazing are fretted cast-iron panels and below the word PURVEYORS is incised into the plinth. The left return has one blind window to each upper floor and a single-pane shop window similar to that at the front without the pierced panels and supported by 3 plain fretted brackets. No.55 facing north-east, of similar design, is one-window range and cants forward from No.54 to meet the east side of The Shambles. It has a 6/6-pane sash window to the 2nd floor, a C19 plate-glass sash to the 1st floor and a C20 shop to the ground floor. INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: ST9214573253
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462321
- 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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