Chafyn Grove Cottages Parish Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 January 1966. Almshouse, parish hall.
Chafyn Grove Cottages Parish Hall
- WRENN ID
- blind-pier-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 January 1966
- Type
- Almshouse, parish hall
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chafyn Grove Cottages and Parish Hall, formerly known as The Almshouses and Parish Hall, is a pair of almshouses and a parish hall built in 1865, provided by William Chafyn-Grove of Zeals House. The village hall was added in 1888. The building features Flemish bond brickwork on a rubble stone plinth, with decorative diaper work in vitrified headers, and a tiled roof with coped verges and diagonally-set brick stacks, reflecting a 17th-century style.
The structure has an asymmetric plan and is two stories tall with three windows. The main range includes a moulded doorway to the left of center leading to a recessed porch, flanked by a 4-light ovolo-mullioned casement with a hoodmould on either side, and a 3-light ovolo-mullioned casement with a hoodmould to the right. The first floor has three 3-light ovolo-mullioned casements, and there is an inscription tablet above the center window commemorating the foundation in 1865 in memory of William Chafyn-Grove's mother. The gable above has a coped verge.
To the left, there is a single-storey range with a gabled porch featuring an arched doorway, a 4-light ovolo-mullioned casement, and a second arched doorway to the left. Attached to the right is a single-storey wing that projects to the front, which has a Tudor-arched doorway in a gabled porch, a 3-light mullioned casement in the gable end, and a large external stack on the right return. The rear has a lean-to with mullioned casements, and the single-storey range has a large stack at the rear.
The village hall, attached to the left of the former schoolroom, has its gable end facing the road with a 4-light mullioned casement, an 1888 datestone, and a coped verge on the gable end. The south side features three 3-light ovolo-mullioned casements and a 20th-century porch attached to the left. The interior retains 19th-century joinery, and No. 1 has serpentine splat balusters similar to those found in the 19th-century wing of Zeals House. There is possible evidence of a 17th-century building on the site, with some earlier brickwork visible on the stacks and north wing, and the bases of the walls are partly made of rubble stone.
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