LONDON BUILDINGS AND WALL ATTACHED TO THE REAR

LONDON BUILDINGS AND WALL ATTACHED TO THE REAR, 33 AND 34, MARKET PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268039
Date first listed:: 25-Apr-1950
List Entry Name:: LONDON BUILDINGS AND WALL ATTACHED TO THE REAR
Statutory Address:: LONDON BUILDINGS AND WALL ATTACHED TO THE REAR, 33 AND 34, MARKET PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268039
Date first listed:: 25-Apr-1950
List Entry Name:: LONDON BUILDINGS AND WALL ATTACHED TO THE REAR
Statutory Address 1:: LONDON BUILDINGS AND WALL ATTACHED TO THE REAR, 33 AND 34, 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:: LONDON BUILDINGS AND WALL ATTACHED TO THE REAR, 33 AND 34, 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 92238 73195

Details

CHIPPENHAM

ST9273SW MARKET PLACE 930-1/10/106 (East side) 25/04/50 Nos.33 AND 34 London Buildings and wall attached to the rear

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Two houses on a corner to the south-east of the market place, now shops and offices. Early and mid C18 with C17 wing to rear of No.34. No.33, facing west, is mid C18. Painted limestone ashlar with a slate roof. Double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. Pilasters, cornice and parapet. Two C20 windows to the 2nd floor flank a blind window with painted glazing bars. 2 early C19 sash windows with 4/8 panes to the 1st floor flank a 6/6-pane semicircular-arched sash. A fine mid C19 Classical-style timber shop front has Tuscan pilasters with patera to the cornices, one to each side and pairs flanking a C20 door, which support a fascia with a modillion cornice and central pediment with carved shield and foliage to the tympanum. No.34 is early C18 with a C17 rear wing to the west side of the churchyard. Painted roughcast over limestone rubble, freestone chamfered block pilasters, cornice, restored parapet, moulded architraves and hipped double-Roman tile roof to the front block, steep-pitched slate to the rear wing. 3-unit plan parallel to No.33. 2 storeys; 6-window range. Thick glazing bars and crown glass to early C18 6-over-6-pane sash windows to the 1st floor, C20 shop fronts to the ground floor. To the inside left is a hood on brackets flanked by C19 shop windows. That to the left has a door to the right and a fascia and cornice, that to the right is projecting and larger with 3 plate-glass panes below a fascia and cornice. The left return has a truncated brick stack corbelled out at the 1st floor, a C19 3-light casement window at eaves level to the rear wing, and a 3-light leaded window to the gable end of the rear wing. Various C19 and C20 openings to the ground floor. INTERIOR: this was originally one building, the cellar is continuous (part now blocked). The C17 rear wing has a 3-bay collar-beam roof and oak floor boards. The early C18 block is also 3 bays with collar beams and oak floor boards. The 1st floor right-hand room of the main block (now part of No.33) has full-height raised-and-fielded panelling, a box cornice and a painted stone open fire with roll-edge moulding to the intrados and cyma moulding to the extrados. The C20 stairs to the centre (replacing the original) have an early C18 swept dado with raised and fielded panelling below. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: a coped limestone rubble wall approx 2.5m high attached to the south-east corner of the rear wing extends approx 8m and fronts the Caretaker's Cottage of the Jubilee Building (qv). It has a stone lintel to a central C20 door and a blocked 2-light window to the left. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Cherry B: Wiltshire: London: 1967-1975: 169).

Listing NGR: ST9224473198

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Legacy System number:: 462309
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1963), 169

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.