Greenways Grange And Attached Stable

CHIPPENHAM

ST97SW HILL CORNER ROAD 930-1/1/59 (South side) 22/06/78 Greenways Grange and attached stable

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House. C17 with early C18 and C19 blocks to the right. Coursed limestone rubble, freestone quoins and dressings, continuous steep-pitched stone slate roof to the C17 and C18 blocks, pantile to the C19 block, double brick stack to the left gable end, moulded ashlar stack to the right gable end, brick stack to the rear of the C18 block. PLAN: 2-unit through-passage plan, the room to left having been raised and remodelled in the C18; C19 pantiled lean-to stable to the left; one room each to the C18 and C19 extensions to right. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 5-window range. The C17 block is stepped slightly forward with 2 ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned 4-light leaded windows at eaves level. A C20 porch covers the door to the through passage. The C18 range has timber lintels to two 2-light leaded windows, that to the left is C20. Timber lintels over C19/C20 casements to rear. One doorway to a former stable range with mid C20 door and windows. INTERIOR: the ground-floor rooms have panelled shutters and window seats. A C18 flush 6-panelled door (formerly the front door) inside the porch leads to the stone-flagged through-passage; mostly C18 plank and panelled doors. Timber-framed partition wall to the left of the through-passage, the room to the left an early/mid C18 fireplace with moulded wood surround and a chamfered axial beam is supported on a carved timber corbel set in the partition wall: ceiling raised in C18/19. On both floors the wall to rear side of the deep chimney-breast has a concave curve, possibly a former newel stair. Both the C17 and C18 roofs are 3-bays with collar-beam trusses and wide elm floorboards to the attic, the later having nailed collars. The stone-flagged room to the right (west) has a chamfered axial ogee-stopped beam set in a deep chimney-breast to a Tudor-arched open fire with sunk spandrels. To the left of the fire a doorway with old chamfered wood lintel leads to a C18 kitchen block with a chamfered surround to a former open fire in the rear wall and a slightly chamfered axial beam. A further C19 room to the right, probably a scullery, has tongued-and-grooved panelling, a large dresser and a pump to the front wall which draws water from a well in the front garden. The pitch of the roof of this is section has been raised, both structures remain. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: the lean-to stable to the east end has tenoned purlins and an S-shaped brace from the wall. The rear is floored with slots in the main beam suggesting that it was formerly completely floored; some wooden railed sections to feeding mangers remain; the floor is C19 high-fired black ceramic tiles with raised squares.

Listing NGR: ST9186374794