2 AND 3, HIGH STREET
2 AND 3, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268101
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1977
- List Entry Name:
- 2 AND 3, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 2 AND 3, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268101
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1977
- List Entry Name:
- 2 AND 3, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2 AND 3, HIGH STREET
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:
- 2 AND 3, HIGH STREET
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 91984 73309
Details
CHIPPENHAM
ST9173SE HIGH STREET 930-1/9/42 (South side) 19/05/77 Nos.2 AND 3
GV II
Hotel, now shops. c1835. Limestone ashlar with part-rendered rubblestone to the rear wing, double-pitched slate roof with moulded ashlar stacks and stone coping to gable ends. Double-depth plan with rear left wing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 8-window range. Chamfered arrises to a wide semicircular-arched carriage entrance one-and-a-half storeys high (now glazed), which is flanked by full-height splayed pilasters with pyramidal caps above the blocking course. A 1st-floor band is at impost level. Above the arch a 3-light window with semicircular-arched lights and 4/4-pane sash windows has a sill band spanning the central bay. To the right is a semicircular-arched doorway (now a window) below a shallow splayed oriel window with similar but taller windows. To the 1st-floor left are paired plate-glass sash windows below a bracketed cornice. The cornice and blocking course span the facade, to the centre is a raised plaque "1835". The rear wing has a roof hipped to the rear and a blank ashlar wall to the left with 16 iron rings for harnessing horses. The right-hand wall is rendered with a planked door to a gabled loading bay, a 3-light window to the left with 12/12-pane sashes, other C20 windows and doors, and 4 harnessing rings to the right. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORY: mentioned in 1703 as formerly known as the New Inn. (Chamberlain, Joseph A: Chippenham: Chippenham: 1976-: 130).
Listing NGR: ST9198473309
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462239
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Chamberlain, J A, Chippenham, (), 130
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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