22 AND 23, NEW ROAD

CHIPPENHAM

ST9173NE NEW ROAD 930-1/6/156 (East side) 22/06/78 Nos.22 AND 23

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Also known as: Nos.22 AND 23 OLD ROAD. Pair of houses with entrances in Old Road. Mid C19, No.23 to the left, enlarged late C19. Limestone ashlar to the front, rubblestone and render to the rear, shallow-pitched slate roof with a coped gable to the right, late C19 block to the left has a hipped roof to the front, crested and gabled to the rear with an ashlar stack to the left return. PLAN: double-depth with single-storey rear extensions. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys (3 to the late C19 block); each house 3-window range. No.22 to the right is symmetrical with a cornice, parapet, eaves band, pilasters, raised surrounds to 6/6-pane sash windows and rusticated surrounds to various windows to the rear. No.23 was originally similar and the right-hand bay remains. The 2 bays to the left have been replaced by a late C19 3-storey wing with paired plate-glass windows to the front, paired 9/1 sashes and a gabled single-storey extension to the rear. INTERIOR: not inspected. One of a group of houses in New road built after the arrival of the railway in 1840-41.

Listing NGR: ST9195873773