Angel Hotel and Motel and stables attached to the rear
Angel Hotel and Motel and stables attached to the rear, 8, Market Place
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1268061
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Angel Hotel and Motel and stables attached to the rear
- Statutory Address:
- Angel Hotel and Motel and stables attached to the rear, 8, Market Place
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1268061
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Angel Hotel and Motel and stables attached to the rear
- Statutory Address 1:
- Angel Hotel and Motel and stables attached to the rear, 8, 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:
- Angel Hotel and Motel and stables attached to the rear, 8, 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 92135 73194
Details
ST 9273 SW
930-1/10/91
CHIPPENHAM
MARKET PLACE (west side),
No. 8, Angel Hotel and Motel and stables attached to the rear
(Formerly Listed as MARKET PLACE (west side) No.8 Angel Hotel and Motel)
25.04.50
GV
II*
Inn and house, now hotel. C17, remodelled and refronted in early C18 when inn was enlarged by incorporation of the house. Painted limestone ashlar, stone slate roof hipped to the front, plain tile roof to part of the rear right wing, Welsh slate roof to rear left wing, hipped to the rear, moulded ashlar stacks to left, centre ridge and front right of centre, brick stacks to rear wings.
PLAN: five-unit plan with two rear wings and attached stable range to the rear left; original inn to north, and house to south; wing to rear of south range is said to have been an assembly room.
EXTERIOR: three storeys; symmetrical seven-window range. Balustraded parapet, cornice returned to both sides, platbands between floors, and plinth. 6/6-pane sash windows with heavy glazing bars, those to the upper floors with cyma-moulded architraves, those to the ground floor with roll-edge moulding. A large prostyle porch (restored C20) has paired Tuscan columns to the corners which support an entablature and balustraded parapet. A large pedimented dormer is to the right. To the far right is a window set in a former doorway which has engaged Tuscan columns supporting a pediment. The rear of the main block has a short central wing with a double-pitched hipped roof and a two-light stone-mullioned window.
The first block of the right wing, probably C17, has a steeply-pitched plain tile roof, an early C19 horizonal 10/10-pane sash window at eaves level, probably a former mullioned window to the left, and a 6/6-pane sash to the first-floor right. C20 windows to the ground floor. The rear block has a stone stack to the left gabled out from the roof, three truncated brick stacks above the wall and various C20 windows. The gable end has stone coping a C20 door. The C19 rear left wing is three storeys; four-window range. Window to the secondnd floor is cantilevered out over a former courtyard, nowfilled; 6/6-pane and plate-glass sash windows.
INTERIOR: includes cased beams and joists to ground floor. First floor room with bolection-moulded fireplace. Timber-framed partitions, including stair turret with turned balusters to early C18 open-well staircase. C18 three-bay collar-truss roof to south range. Early C17 four bay king-post roof with horizontal bracing at collar level, tenoned purlins and C18 alteration including north hip linked to refronting.
The stable block to the rear left has a stone tile roof half-hipped to the rear, gabled to the centre over depressed arched loading bay and chamfered stone doorway.
HISTORY: in 1613 an inn on this site was called The Bull. By 1747 it was known as The Angel. According to Smollett, this was the hotel where the mother of Humphry Clinker, his hero in the eponymous novel, was bar-keeper. The C17 king-post roof is an unusually early example for this region, late C16 examples being recorded in Lacock.
(Chamberlain, Joseph A: Chippenham: Chippenham: 1976: 128; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Cherry B: Wiltshire: London: 1967-1975: 170; Slocombe PM: Wiltshire Buildings Record: 1987).
Listing NGR: ST9212073190
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462287
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Chamberlain, J A, Chippenham, (), 128
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975), 170
Smollett, Tobias, The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, (1771), 196
Other
Wiltshire Buildings Record, (1987)
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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