62, St Mary Street

This is an early 18th-century house, now used as offices, situated in Chippenham. The front is painted roughcast over limestone rubble, with a painted freestone eaves cornice, sill string courses, and a ground-floor platband. The roof is covered with stone slates to the front and simulated stone to the rear, with pantiles to a 19th-century rear wing. The building originally had a two-unit through-passage plan, with a rear wing and later 19th-century extensions.

The front elevation features three storeys and a two-window range. It has a bracketed gutter and sash windows: three-pane sashes to the second floor, six-pane sashes to the first floor, and 20th-century windows to the ground floor. A 18th-century hood on brackets shelters a 20th-century front door. To the right of the door is a 19th-century cast-iron bootscraper. The rear wing has a blocked door with a cyma-moulded architrave and cornice, now coated in 20th-century roughcast, and paired eight-pane sash windows. A lower 19th-century pantiled range includes a single-storey workshop with a horizontal sliding sash window. A mid-18th-century brick stair turret is located at the angle to the right of the rear wing, featuring nine-pane sashes with thick glazing bars.

Inside, the left-hand through passage is stone-flagged. A chamfered axial beam spans the ground-floor room and passage. A room on the first floor of the rear wing has a box cornice, full-height raised and fielded panelling, an open fire with a cyma-moulded surround, and a large raised panel above the fire. A half-glazed cupboard with Gothic tracery is to the left, and a panelled cupboard and an 18th-century door with three horizontal panels and L-H hinges flank the room. A 20th-century passage divides the right wall from the room, with panelling continuing below the dado around a blocked former window. The first-floor rooms at the front have chamfered beams with run-out stops. A rear stack between these rooms features 19th-century cast-iron fireplaces in angled chimney breasts. The door to the left-hand room is planked with fine wrought-iron strap hinges. The attic of the rear wing has a four-bay collar-truss roof with tenoned purlins and a ridge-in-notch.