Wiltshire Area Health Authority Headquarters

CHIPPENHAM

ST9172 ROWDEN HILL 930-1/11/175 (East side) 22/06/78 No.53 Wiltshire Area Health Authority Headquarters

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Large house, now offices. c1870. Limestone ashlar, hipped slate roof with moulded ashlar stacks to the front slope and rear. Eclectic style, mostly Classical with some Rundbogen details. L-shaped plan with C20 wing to the rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. Plate-glass sash windows. The entrance facade facing north has chamfered rusticated quoins, eaves band, platband and plinth and a modillion cornice to eaves and pediment. The pediment, over the stepped-forward central bay, has an ornamented oculus to the tympanum. 2-light windows to the 1st floor have semicircular-arched moulded archivolts with ornamented keystones and imposts and triple-bracketed sills to paired semicircular-arched sash windows. Ground-floor windows have moulded architraves and cornices on consoles over segmental-arched sashes. The large chamfered rusticated ashlar porch has an arch to each side with keystones to moulded archivolts on an impost string course. The front arch is flanked by small recesses below the string course. The parapet to the porch is pierced circles between panelled piers. The west garden front is similar but the central bay is wider, a larger pediment has shields in the tympanum over a 4-light window and a canted bay similar to the porch, but with moulded architraves and keystones to full-height segmental-arched sash windows. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: ST9119972665