Avon Bridge House
AVON BRIDGE HOUSE, BATH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268166
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Avon Bridge House
- Statutory Address:
- AVON BRIDGE HOUSE, BATH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268166
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Avon Bridge House
- Statutory Address 1:
- AVON BRIDGE HOUSE, BATH 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:
- AVON BRIDGE HOUSE, BATH 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 91874 73316
Details
CHIPPENHAM
ST9173SE BATH ROAD 930-1/9/2 (South side) 22/06/78 Avon Bridge House (Formerly Listed as: BATH ROAD (South side) Nestle's Warehouses)
II
Warehouses and factory, now offices. c1873 and later rebuilding of an earlier cloth factory. Squared coursed limestone rubble with freestone dressings and slate roof. 2 blocks, both rectangular plan (and part of a wall to 3rd block to the left, east, now demolished). EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; block to the left 10-window range, taller block to the right 18-window range. C20 glazing to tall segmental-arched windows with rusticated architraves; similar quoins and jambs to wide segmental arches and to each end and centre. The block to the left has a more steeply pitched roof, a blank left return and a pyramidal bellcote (restored); the block to the right has stone coping over stepped freestone blocks to the right return which has one window to the attic, 3 to the 1st floor and one to the ground floor. INTERIOR: not inspected but noted as retaining original cast-iron columns and beams. HISTORY: the site was acquired in 1873 by the National Anglo-Swiss Milk Company for their 1st factory in Britain. (Jefferies S (Chippenham Civic Society): A Chippenham Collection: Chippenham: 1987-: 45-46).
Listing NGR: ST9187473316
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462176
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Jefferies, S, A Chippenham Collection, (1987), 45-46
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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