35, Market Place

CHIPPENHAM

ST9273SW MARKET PLACE 930-1/10/107 (East side) 22/06/78 No.35

GV II

House, now a shop and offices. Early C18, front block rebuilt early/mid C19. Limestone ashlar, hipped slate roof with tall brick stacks to right corner and left return. Double-depth plan with older rear wings, formerly separate cottages. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 2-window range. 3/6-pane sash windows to the 2nd floor, 6/6-pane sashes to the 1st floor and later C19 projecting shop window of 3 plate-glass panes to the right of the ground floor; to the left steps lead up to a semicircular-arched roll-edged doorway and mid C19 door with 2 bolection-moulded panels to the base and C20 glazing above; plain fanlight. Cornice and blocking course returned to the right, platbands between floors. Early C18 rear wing has 2-window front to churchyard including 9/9-pane sashes with thick glazing bars, hoodmould over 3-light stone-mullioned window and mid C20 doorway with bracketed hood. INTERIOR: arched cellars extend under all 3 buildings and under the road. The rear wing is altered. 2 chamfered beams and 4-leaf panelled shutters with wrought-iron arched fixing bar, catch and H-hinges remain. HISTORY: this was The King's Head Public House in the late C18 and early C19. The 3 cottages to the rear were acquired by the King's Head before 1784.

Listing NGR: ST9223873219