Tudor House

This is a late 17th-century Tudor House, located in Chippenham, and now operating as a shop. The house has an L-shaped plan, with a parallel rear range creating a U-shaped layout. It is timber-framed with plastered panels, and features a stone slate roof to the front, including three dormers, and double-Roman tiles to the rear wing. Brick stacks are located to the rear of the main block and to the rear-left of the rear wing.

The exterior is two storeys with an attic, and has a three-window front. The central dormer is hipped, flanked by gabled dormers, all with 19th-century two-light casement windows. The first floor has close-studded panels with a jettied, gabled central bay window featuring mullions and a transom, flanked by pargetted panels and two-light transomed casement windows. The corners have diagonal bracing. The ground floor has slate pent roofs over rectangular shop-window bays, flanking a 20th-century door within a 17th-century moulded architrave. A 17th-century stud-and-panel door with wrought-iron strap hinges is located to the right, sheltered by the pent roof. A 3-light leaded casement window with 17th-century translucent glass is visible on the right return, positioned over a fixed window of three rows of seven panes. The gable of the rear block is timber-framed with soft, eroded red-brick nogging, while the main wall is stretcher-bond brick with two 19th-century windows to each floor.

The interior includes planked doors with fine wrought-iron strap hinges, flanking a central passage leading to the rear. A doorway to the right leads to a cellar. A winder stair, with splat balusters and square newels, rises above the passage. A room in the rear wing has an oak bressumer over a stone Tudor-arched architrave with plain spandrels to an open fire, backed onto the front block. It also features exposed close studding and rafters, a chamfered cross-beam, and a fixed window with three rows of seven small panes. A room to the left of the rear block has a smaller open fire with a moulded architrave, stone stairs to the centre, and a kitchen to the right with exposed rafters. The front and rear block roofs are three-bay structures; the front roof has external purlins, windbraces, and wide oak floorboards, while the rear roof has threaded purlins. There are 17th-century planked doors and one thin 18th-century two-panel door to the attic. Stone steps lead to the cellar under the front block, which contains a chamfered cross-beam. The building is considered a fine late 17th-century town house, demonstrating a characteristic late use of timber-framing.