Hardenhuish House (Chippenham Grammar School)
HARDENHUISH HOUSE (CHIPPENHAM GRAMMAR SCHOOL), HARDENHUISH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1268100
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Hardenhuish House (Chippenham Grammar School)
- Statutory Address:
- HARDENHUISH HOUSE (CHIPPENHAM GRAMMAR SCHOOL), HARDENHUISH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1268100
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Hardenhuish House (Chippenham Grammar School)
- Statutory Address 1:
- HARDENHUISH HOUSE (CHIPPENHAM GRAMMAR SCHOOL), HARDENHUISH LANE
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:
- HARDENHUISH HOUSE (CHIPPENHAM GRAMMAR SCHOOL), HARDENHUISH LANE
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 91222 74542
Details
CHIPPENHAM
ST97SW HARDENHUISH LANE 930-1/1/41 Hardenhuish House (Chippenham 22/06/78 Grammar School)
II*
Manor house, now a school. Late C18, with c1829 alterations including a portico by Sir John Soane. Limestone ashlar with slate roofs hipped to the front, gabled to the rear of rear wings; moulded ashlar stacks to the rear and ridges of wings. STYLE: Palladian, portico in Classical style. PLAN: double-depth central stair-hall plan with rear wings and later wings to the left. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; symmetrical 5-bay front with pedimented 3-bay centre stepped forward; a table, perhaps for an urn, surmounts a pediment over a modillion cornice, platband and sill band to the 1st floor. Moulded architraves to the upper floor windows; 3/6-pane sashes to the 2nd floor, 3 pedimented 6/6-pane sashes to the 1st floor centre, flanked by 6/6-pane sashes with floating cornices. Steps up to a semicircular prostyle portico of 4 Ionic columns supporting an entablature with a dentilled cornice, flanked by 6/6-pane sash windows with chamfered architraves. Both returns have full-height splayed bays with windows similar to the front. A mid C19 service block to the left has a hipped roof to a splayed front with 6/6-pane sash windows flanked by 4/4-pane sashes; the left return is roughcast with freestone dressings to the windows and a moulded eaves cornice. The service block is connected to the main house by a mid/late C19 dining room which has 3 large 6/6-pane sash windows. The splayed rear right return was formerly covered by a conservatory (probably 1829), it has full-height 9/9-pane sash windows; to the rear right corner are 2 octagonal rooms with hipped lead roofs, that to the rear with a ball finial. A block to the rear has a hipped roof with a lantern. INTERIOR: the entrance hall has a C18 modillion cornice and oak floor boards. A C19 semicircular arch leads to the rear stair hall housing a C19 open-string dogleg staircase with turned balusters rising to the top floor. The curtail step is double-wreathed. C19 double entrance doors with margin panes, 4-panel doors to the upper floors, 6-panel to the ground floor. The ground-floor room to the left retains a modillion cornice but has a high C19 skirting board. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Cherry B: Wiltshire: London: 264).
Listing NGR: ST9122274542
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462238
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975), 264
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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