40, HILL CORNER ROAD
40, HILL CORNER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268071
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 40, HILL CORNER ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 40, HILL CORNER ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268071
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- 40, HILL CORNER ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 40, HILL CORNER 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:
- 40, HILL CORNER 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 92286 74948
Details
CHIPPENHAM
ST97SW HILL CORNER ROAD 930-1/1/57 (North side) No.40
II
House. Late C17/early C18. Limestone rubble with freestone quoins and dressings, C20 concrete tile roof gabled to front, rear and east side which has a C19 ashlar stack and a C20 brick stack to the rear junction with the the lean-to. 2-unit through-passage plan with C20 single-storey lean-to to the east and C20 porch to the front. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic; one-window range. Windows have timber lintels covered with lead flashing and traces of former hoodmoulds, that to the ground floor is 3-light with stone mullions. INTERIOR: the axial passage between the rooms (formerly leading through to the next house) is flanked by moulded beams with a cross-beam near the centre; all have ogee-stops, implying that the passage was in 2 parts. The front room has a chamfered axial beam flanked by a C19 planked door with fine wrought-iron strap hinges to the left and a 3-light window to the right. A deep chimney-breast to an open fire on the right-hand wall has a C20 pine bressumer replacing one of massive oak, parts are still in the garden. Stairs to the same wall to the rear of the passage curve to a landing with plank-and-muntin walling, probably repositioned. Elm treads and floorboards to the 3-bay attic which has butt-tenoned purlins and a ridge in notch.
Listing NGR: ST9228674948
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462253
- 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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