Corsham Parish Council Offices With Railings

The Corsham Parish Council Offices, located at No. 31 on Corsham High Street, are housed in two buildings that were originally two separate houses. The left building, known as Arnold House, dates back to 1703 and was likely a refacing of an earlier structure. It features an ashlar front with a stone tiled roof, a coped south gable, and a south end stack. This building is 2½ storeys tall and has a four-window range. Notable architectural details include two moulded coped dormer gables with finials, raised plaques displaying the date 1703 and the initials WA, and 2-light recessed cyma-moulded leaded mullion windows with hoodmoulds. Each main floor has four early 19th-century twelve-pane sash windows. The ground floor has a door located to the right of the left end sash, which is topped with a hood on brackets. There is also a chamfered rear doorcase that is now internal, and a rear curved stair tower with a chimney gable to the left and an ashlar wing to the right, which has a hipped roof at the east end and a west end stack. The north side features a blank large upper window above a 3-light recessed ovolo-moulded mullion window. Additionally, there is a rubble stone addition to the west with a hipped roof.

The building to the right is also ashlar fronted with a stone tiled roof, coped gables, and a north end stack. It is two storeys high with a two-window range, a raised plinth, a first-floor sill course, and a moulded eaves cornice. A prominent feature is the large 2-storey canted bay on the right, which has a raised band, a hipped roof, and three twelve-pane sashes on each floor. To the left, there is an upper twelve-pane sash and a ground floor six-panel door that is recessed in an arched surround with a fanlight. This surround is adorned with heavily rusticated piers and arch, along with plain imposts. The property is enclosed by spearhead iron railings with pierced uprights that support an overthrow lamp bracket, and there is a rubble stone wall to the north. The rear of the right building includes one twelve-pane upper sash and a ground floor lean-to.