19, THE BRIDGE (See details for further address information)

No. 19 The Bridge is a Grade II listed building in Chippenham, likely a former department store built around 1910. It features a limestone ashlar exterior, with an unseen roof that is probably slate and a lead dome on the corner bay. The building is designed in a free style, predominantly Baroque, and has an L-shaped plan.

The exterior consists of three storeys and an eight-window range with original openings. The ground floor has 20th-century shop fronts with banded rustication on the pilasters, one located to the left (east) and two to the right (north, in Foghamshire). The windows are plate-glass sash types. A projecting 20th-century-style entablature spans the facade, which is topped with a dentilled cornice and a blocking course.

At the corner, there is a semicircular tower with three windows beneath a hemi-spherical dome, which is adorned with a weather vane and a ball topping a tall finial. Engaged Ionic columns flank the second-storey windows, while the first floor features banded rustication and paired Tuscan columns that support a portico in antis over double half-glazed doors.

The upper floors are articulated by Ionic columns that rest on the cornice of the shops below. The facade to the left includes a full-width six-light semicircular window with a transom and keystone on the first floor, which supports two small central engaged Ionic columns on the second floor. These columns are flanked by three-light segmental bay windows that project to meet the entablature. The range on the far right is similar, and to the immediate right of the entrance, the second-floor bay is situated above a taller first-floor bay, which features elaborate carving around a plaque between the floors. The interior has not been inspected.