Stable, Garden Wall And Gate Piers To Number 55 (The Grove)

CHIPPENHAM

ST9273SW ST MARY STREET 930-1/10/209 (East side) 22/06/78 Stable, garden wall and gate piers to No.55 (The Grove) (Formerly Listed as: ST MARY STREET Garden wall and gate piers at No.55 (The Grove)) (Formerly Listed as: ST MARY STREET (East side) Stable at No.55 (The Grove))

GV II

Stable, walls and gate piers. Early C18. Limestone rubble with freestone quoins and dressings; double-Roman tile roof coped, with gabled finials and moulded kneelers to gable ends. Rectangular plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; no windows to the 1st floor. The street front (west) has a semicircular-arched loading bay to the 1st floor with a C20 planked door; to the right of the south gable end is a chamfered freestone architrave to an early C19 6-panel door with flush panels and a timber lintel to a small window opening to the left. The east front, facing the garden has two 2-light stone-mullioned windows with stepped cyma moulding under a continuous hoodmould to the ground floor. The north wall is blank. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: a rubblestone garden wall with freestone capping, approx 2m high, borders the garden onto St Mary Street (west), and extends approx 22m to the north where it is attached to No.55, The Grove (qv). It also extends approx 35m to the south of the stable. Close to the house is an early C18 rusticated stone architrave and broken pediment to a 6-panel door. Close to the south corner of the stable are 2 ashlar gate piers with pyramidal caps to C19 diagonally-planked double gates (restored C20) with spiked tops.

Listing NGR: ST9229173300