Derriads And Wall Attached To Rear

CHIPPENHAM

ST9273NW DERRIADS LANE 930-1/11/26 Derriads and wall attached to rear 22/06/78

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House, now restored and converted into apartments. c1904. Limestone ashlar facade, quoins and dressings to rear wings, rubblestone rear wings; hipped slate roof to the main block, stone slates to the rear and plain tile to the rest; moulded ashlar ridge stacks to the front, right return and rear ridge of the hipped right wing. Classical style with some Edwardian Baroque influences. U-shaped plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-bay range. Balustraded parapet, cornice, rusticated chamfered quoins, plate-glass sash windows with edge-roll mouldings to the main block and 6/6-pane sash windows to the wings. The central bay steps slightly forward and the ridge stacks coincide with the flanking pilasters. A pediment supported by Ionic columns over French windows, (the former main entrance), is flanked by plain windows. Lintel-band, sill-band, raised surrounds and keystones to the 1st-floor windows, that to the central range is stone-mullioned with 3-lights. A cornice spans the ground floor. The ranges to the sides have tripartite windows with segmental pediments, keystones to each light and panelled aprons below the sills. The right return, now the entrance facade, has a stack to the right-of-centre of the parapet dated 1904; 1st-floor lintel-band, sill-band and keystones to irregularly-spaced windows; to the ground-floor right is a C20 Regency-style swept canopy on trellis supports with moulded architraves to 3 windows to the centre. The rear wing continuation has a bracketed gutter, sill band and a hipped roof to a single-storey canted bay to the left. The gabled rear left wing is 2-window range with a C20 door and window to the ground floor. The rear of the main block has a wide semicircular arch now infilled, implying that this was former stabling. INTERIOR: not inspected but noted as having panelled shutters and some original joinery; the staircase was removed during alterations. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: a rubblestone wall attached to the rear left wing, approx 10m long and 3m high cants back to skirt a yew tree and sweeps down to approx 2m. HISTORY: A map of 1773 shows a farmhouse called "Derrits" on the site. Sir Henry Hastings Goldney, last holder of the title of Remembrancer of the City of London, lived here. (Chamberlain, Joseph A: Chippenham: Chippenham: 1976-: 6).

Listing NGR: ST8982372919