The Ivy and the Ivy West Wing
THE IVY AND THE IVY WEST WING, BATH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1268171
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Ivy and the Ivy West Wing
- Statutory Address:
- THE IVY AND THE IVY WEST WING, BATH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1268171
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- The Ivy and the Ivy West Wing
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE IVY AND THE IVY WEST WING, 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:
- THE IVY AND THE IVY WEST WING, 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 91731 73199
Details
CHIPPENHAM
ST9173SE BATH ROAD 930-1/9/5 (South side) 25/04/50 The Ivy and The Ivy West Wing (Formerly Listed as: BATH ROAD The Ivy)
GV I
Manor House, now 2 dwellings. Dated 1728 with some C17 fragments. Built for John Norris. Limestone ashlar north and east facades, squared rubblestone with freestone dressings to the rear; stone slate roof hipped to the rear; moulded ashlar stacks with paired shafts to ridges and former gable ends. Baroque style. H-shaped plan with service wing to the west, now separate dwellings (The Ivy Longhouse and The Ivy Stables (qqv)). EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics and basement; symmmetrical 7-window range, i.e. 2-windows to outer wings flanking recessed 3-window range. A cornice and parapet encircle the building, the cornice is dentilled and the parapet balustraded to the front. The projecting front 2-window range wings have banded rusticated quoins topped by urn finials from which the parapet sweeps up to segmental pediments. 6/6-pane sash windows. 2 dormers with segmental heads, windows to the gable attics have thick glazing bars, raised surrounds with keystones and moulded imposts. Moulded architraves, those to the 1st-floor have shaped aprons, ground-floor windows have cornices and aprons, those flanking the door have semicircular arches. The central bay, stepped slightly forward, is flanked by pilasters supporting an open pediment and tall parapet with shaped raised and fielded panels, a cornice and blocking course with urn finials to sides and centre. The tympanum has a recessed semicircular-arched panel with a mask keystone and carving over the 1st-floor window. Mid C19 half-glazed double doors with margin panes, semi-elliptical radial fanlight, moulded archivolt, imposts and mask keystone, are set in a pedimented doorcase with paired engaged Ionic columns supporting a pulvinated frieze and dentilled cornice. The quoins of the projecting side wings are crowned by urns, the wall sweeps up to support full-width segmental-arched pediments over semicircular-arched attic windows with keystones and moulded imposts. Lead rainwater heads and downpipes with a raised ivy leaf are dated 1728. The east facade has 2 gables to the former building rising behind the parapet, slightly projecting central range with a semicircular-arched window with mask keystone and moulded imposts over a pedimented window which is flanked by single-storey splayed bay windows with parapets (added in 1758). The rear, south garden front has gabled dormers to the hipped wings and centre. The projecting wings are full-height canted bays with moulded architraves and bracketed sills to windows. 9/9-pane sash windows to the 3-window range central block. The 1st-floor windows have semicircular arches, keystones and continuous impost and sills. The ground-floor windows have segmental heads flanking a shell hood on brackets. INTERIOR: includes large diagonally-paved, panelled entrance hall with a modillion cornice, 2 elaborate stone chimney-pieces, an open-well, open-string staircase with turned balusters and swept hand and dado rail. The drawing room has full-height bolection-moulded panels; paired, fluted Corinthian pilasters flanking a circular panel over an elaborate fireplace with Corinthian columns and a mask centre piece. HISTORY: dated 1728 and built for John Norris, lawyer and MP for the borough in 1713. C18 work represents remodelling of an early C17 house; restored 1981 by Julian Bannerman. Possible architects for the house include John Strahan, William Halfpenny, William Killigrew or Thomas Greenway. (Country Life Magazine.: Jackson-Stopps, Gervase: The Ivy, Chippenham (September 3 and 10 1992): 66).
Listing NGR: ST9173173199
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462181
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in Country Life, (1992), 66
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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