2 And 3, Place Road

ST 9063 MELKSHAM PLACE ROAD (north side)

7/138 Nos 2 and 3

II

Pair of attached houses. Circa 1864. Ashlar with diamond quoins, Welsh slate roof with coped verges, ashlar stacks. H-plan. 2 storeys with attic and basement, 4 windows. Entrance doors are to left and right returns, doors have round arched panels and are in moulded stone cases with Perpendicular style arched head over fanlight and pediment with fine vine carving. Left is pair of sashes with chamfered cases and pointed hood moulds over Perpendicular arched openings. First floor has pair of sashes to left and single sash to right with Perpendicular arched openings. Stack has chamfered shoulders and dog-tooth ornament. Gabled dormer. Front has flanking wings with Dutch gables with ballflower ornament; 2-storey canted bays have trefoil arches to panel below sashes with perpendicular arched openings and hood moulds; frieze to first floor with trefoils and same sashes minus hood moulds; parapet with pierced roundels, attic sash has pointed arch over with trefoil in tympanum and polychrome tiles. Central windows are paired sashes with same detail as in bays. Plain rear projecting ashlar wings. Interior not inspected. Place Road was laid out 1864 following the demolition of Place House. A carefully designed unit, retaining all of its original features externally.

Listing NGR: ST9041263700