Number 38, 39 And 40 And Attached Walls And Gate Piers

CHIPPENHAM

ST9173NE NEW ROAD 930-1/6/162 (West side) 22/06/78 Nos.38, 39 AND 40 and attached walls and gate piers

GV II

Terrace of 2 houses and a shop with a flat above. Mid C19. Limestone ashlar, hipped slate roof with moulded ashlar stacks to party walls. Double-depth plans. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 7-window range. A continuous moulded string course forms hoods on brackets to the 2 right-hand houses; bracketed sills to the 1st floor and pilasters to corners and party walls. No.38 to the right is 2-window range with margin panes to plate-glass sash windows and a door with 2 vertical semicircular-arched glazed panels and overlight. No.39 to the centre is similar with C20 windows and door. No.40 to the left is 3-window range. Below the 2 left-hand windows a projecting shop front has a parapet with urn finials to the corners. A former carriage entrance to the right of the shop is now filled with another shop. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: ashlar walls and pyramidal-capped piers enclose the front gardens of Nos 38 and 39. One of a group of houses in New Road built after the arrival of the railway in 1840-41.

Listing NGR: ST9186373733