56, St Mary Street

CHIPPENHAM

ST9273SW ST MARY STREET 930-1/10/200 No.56 22/06/78

GV II

House. Probably late medieval with mid/late C17 remodelling and C19 rear extension. Limestone rubble with freestone quoins and plinth, stone slate roof with brick stacks to right gable end and rear slope of left gable end. L-shaped plan with 2-unit central entry front block. EXTERIOR: one storey with attic to the front, 2 storeys to the rear; 2-window range. Timber lintels to C20 windows, except those to the attic which have ovolo architraves and were formerly 2-light mullioned windows, now C19 horizontal sliding sashes. Of the 2 gabled full dormers to the attic, that to the left is of a steeper pitch; a wrought-iron bracketed gutter spans the facade at sill level. A freestone rusticated door case with edge-roll moulding has a C20 planked door and gabled hood flanked by C20 small-paned windows. To the far right is a rusticated freestone segmental-arched architrave to a planked door, entrance to No.55 (qv) The rendered left gable end has been rebuilt. The roof of the rear right wing is of a shallower pitch with freestone quoins (probably later); bracketed gutter; casement windows of various dates, (C19 and C20). INTERIOR: a cruck to the right gable end and part of a cruck and collar truss to the left end remain. (Wiltshire Building Record: 1988-).

Listing NGR: ST9226273318